inkscape -> indesign with transparency gradient
Hey everybody!
While I'm regularly reading the development list, I've not been signed up for the users list so far. However, I now really got a problem, I just don't manage to solve and hope that you can help me. I created the attached knight to be part of the new logo of TIMES, a case study tournament organised by the European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management (ESTIEM) -- www.times.estiem.org. Now to go on after having weeks of discussing the logo is moving towards the poster. For this I need to provide the logo to be put into InDesign. Basically that means: I need the blue to be a certain cmyk colour and not rgb colour space and I need the transparency gradients in an eps, ai or pdf. Unfortunately I have no clue how to go about it. I couldn't even easily redo it in illustrator. Maybe I'm blind but in the version I tried there seemed to be no option for transparent gradients. The only way this effect should work are transparency masks. I'll try CS3 in university tomorrow, though.
But maybe you can help me out with this? That'd be perfect.
Thanks in advance!
David
David Christian Berg escribió:
Hey everybody!
While I'm regularly reading the development list, I've not been signed up for the users list so far. However, I now really got a problem, I just don't manage to solve and hope that you can help me. I created the attached knight to be part of the new logo of TIMES, a case study tournament organised by the European Students of Industrial Engineering and Management (ESTIEM) -- www.times.estiem.org. Now to go on after having weeks of discussing the logo is moving towards the poster. For this I need to provide the logo to be put into InDesign. Basically that means: I need the blue to be a certain cmyk colour and not rgb colour space and I need the transparency gradients in an eps, ai or pdf. Unfortunately I have no clue how to go about it. I couldn't even easily redo it in illustrator. Maybe I'm blind but in the version I tried there seemed to be no option for transparent gradients. The only way this effect should work are transparency masks. I'll try CS3 in university tomorrow, though.
But maybe you can help me out with this? That'd be perfect.
Thanks in advance!
David
I'm not sure, but couldn't you simply import the SVG into Illustrator to generate the EPS or PDF in CMYK color-space?
I'm not sure, but couldn't you simply import the SVG into Illustrator to generate the EPS or PDF in CMYK color-space?
That would be too easy. I loose all the transparency gradients when opening the SVG in Illustrator CS2. I'll try with CS3 soon at uni, but I'm not too confident. Another idea I hat yesterday was converting the gradients to black and white gradients and use this as an opacity mask afterwards. Don't yet know, if it works, though and if I manage to change all the gradients easily.
Any other ideas?
Thanks!
David
Ok, the solution I'm choosing now as it seems is creating a pixel opacity mask in Inkscape by exporting a white on black version of the logo. In the mask the lines are a little thicker than the actually are supposed to be, to not get the anti alias of the edges. The great thing is that I can make it very high resolution, because it's nice to compress since it's only black and white. It's a horrible way of doing it, I know, but I think it's the only way. And I actually assume in a PDF it would be like that anyways.
Maybe this approach helps some of you, maybe you come up with a better idea for me :)
Cheers!
David
On Mon, 2007-08-20 at 09:38 +0200, David Christian Berg wrote:
I'm not sure, but couldn't you simply import the SVG into Illustrator to generate the EPS or PDF in CMYK color-space?
That would be too easy. I loose all the transparency gradients when opening the SVG in Illustrator CS2. I'll try with CS3 soon at uni, but I'm not too confident. Another idea I hat yesterday was converting the gradients to black and white gradients and use this as an opacity mask afterwards. Don't yet know, if it works, though and if I manage to change all the gradients easily.
Any other ideas?
Thanks!
David
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