bulia byak wrote:
On 4/26/05, Bryce Harrington <bryce@...69...> wrote:
George Reilly wrote:
I created a logo where I have a text outline filled with a gradient. Looks great. Unfortunately, when I convert it to EPS, the gradient fill is lost. The text outline shows up as empty in both Microsoft Word and Photoshop. Is this a limitation of EPS itself or of Inkscape's EPS convertor? (I'm sure I've seen gradients in PostScript documents, so I suspect the latter.)
It's a limit of Postscript/EPS, or at least, a limit of the version we're using. It may have been added in later versions of Postscript.
This is fixed in CVS some time ago, though the fix is not 100% (in particular gradient only works on fill, not stroke, and does not work on text until you convert it to path).
I downloaded the 4/23 build from http://www.inkscape.org/win32-snap/ (the 4/26 zipfile is corrupt) and regenerated the EPS. The EPS file size went from 34K with 0.41 to 57K.
The text (outline or fill) doesn't show up at all in Word 2003. There's just a blank area in the Picture object.
The gradient fill shows up as a solid color in Photoshop CS. I assume Adobe include a first-rate PostScript handler in Photoshop.
I've attached a zip of the SVG source. (Had to be renamed to get past SourceForge's filters.)