bulia writes:
On 4/28/05, George V. Reilly <george@...634...> wrote:
When I bring up Fill & Stroke with the latest binary, I see a blank canvas in the Fill > Linear Gradient dialog. Just Edit, Add, and Repeat buttons. No checkerboard, no handles. Ditto when I look at Fill > Linear Gradient for other objects. Or Radial Gradient.
It's all replaced by Gradient tool, see http://inkscape.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?ReleaseNotes
Ah! I wish I had known about the release notes before. You really ought to link to them from /win32-snap and /download.php
I converted the transparent stop to an opaque white stop. The gradient now shows up in Photoshop CS and GSview 4.6/GS 8.14. However, as you noted yesterday, the repeating nature of the gradient is lost, so I just get purple and a lot of white instead of purple, white, purple.
The text still fails to show up in Word 2003 and Publisher 2003. Obviously a bug in Office's EPS import. Perhaps it doesn't handle PostScript Level 3. This is annoying, since I need to use the logo in Word and Publisher documents.
[Later] I had the bright idea of finding an external tool to convert EPS to WMF (Windows Metafile). ImageMagick can read WMFs, but can't write them. PsToEdit converted the EPS to WMF. A more-or-less correct preview of the WMF shows up in the File Open dialog launched by Word's Insert > Picture > From File, but the entire picture renders as a blank white rectangle. Aaargh!
[Later Still] I played further with pstoedit after I discovered the EMF format (Windows Enhanced Metafiles). "pstoedit -f wemfc" kind of works. It generates an image that Publisher can display. Plus, it scales up when you zoom in, unlike imported EPS. However, the gradient is gone, leaving me with a black outlines around white text. Worse still, the colors in the drawing are inverted. Royal blue has become pale green; lavender -> pale blue; pink -> mid blue. Other tools show the EMF exactly the same way, so this is some funkiness of pstoedit.
/George