8:29 a.m.
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.)
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2:37 p.m.
New subject: [Fwd: Re: Gradient fills in EPS]
On 4/27/05, George V. Reilly <george@...634...> wrote:
The text (outline or fill) doesn't show up at all in Word 2003.
There's
just a blank area in the Picture object.
Obviously a problem with Word.
The gradient fill shows up as a solid color in Photoshop CS. I
assume
Adobe include a first-rate PostScript handler in Photoshop.
And that is because I forgot to mention one more limitation:
Transparency is lost on PS or EPS export (e.g. you can't use a
gradient from an opaque blue to transparent blue; as a workaround,
replace it by a gradient from opaque blue to opaque background color).
So, if you replace the gradient's second color from transparent
magenta to opaque white, it will work. This is a limitation of
Postscript.
And finally there's one Inkscape bug that this file shows: the
pad="reflect" on the gradient is ignored. I'm cc'ing Michael Forbes
who wrote that code - Michael, is this fixable?
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7:03 a.m.
New subject: [Fwd: Re: Gradient fills in EPS]
bulia byak wrote:
On 4/27/05, George V. Reilly <george@...634...> wrote:
>The gradient fill shows up as a solid color in Photoshop CS. I assume
>Adobe include a first-rate PostScript handler in Photoshop.
>
>
And that is because I forgot to mention one more limitation:
Transparency is lost on PS or EPS export (e.g. you can't use a
gradient from an opaque blue to transparent blue; as a workaround,
replace it by a gradient from opaque blue to opaque background color).
So, if you replace the gradient's second color from transparent
magenta to opaque white, it will work. This is a limitation of
Postscript.
Something I forgot to mention yesterday. When I bring up the Fill and
Stroke dialog for the text with 0.41, I see a gradient that I can edit:
two diagonal lavender bands over a checkerboard with cyan handles.
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.
And finally there's one Inkscape bug that this file shows: the
pad="reflect" on the gradient is ignored. I'm cc'ing Michael Forbes
who wrote that code - Michael, is this fixable?
/George
2:29 p.m.
New subject: [Fwd: Re: Gradient fills in EPS]
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
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6:54 p.m.
New subject: [Fwd: Re: Gradient fills in EPS]
Can you email me the file? I can't seem to find it in the inkscape-users list
on SF.
-Michael Forbes
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On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, bulia byak wrote:
On 4/27/05, George V. Reilly <george@...634...> wrote:
> The text (outline or fill) doesn't show up at all in Word 2003. There's
> just a blank area in the Picture object.
Obviously a problem with Word.
> The gradient fill shows up as a solid color in Photoshop CS. I assume
> Adobe include a first-rate PostScript handler in Photoshop.
And that is because I forgot to mention one more limitation:
Transparency is lost on PS or EPS export (e.g. you can't use a
gradient from an opaque blue to transparent blue; as a workaround,
replace it by a gradient from opaque blue to opaque background color).
So, if you replace the gradient's second color from transparent
magenta to opaque white, it will work. This is a limitation of
Postscript.
And finally there's one Inkscape bug that this file shows: the
pad="reflect" on the gradient is ignored. I'm cc'ing Michael Forbes
who wrote that code - Michael, is this fixable?
11:28 p.m.
New subject: [Fwd: Re: Gradient fills in EPS]
On 5/10/05, Michael Forbes <miforbes@...555...> wrote:
Can you email me the file? I can't seem to find it in the inkscape-users list
on SF.
Here it is. The problem with it is that pad="reflect" is ignored in PS output.
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2:02 a.m.
New subject: [Fwd: Re: Gradient fills in EPS]
I see what the problem is. Unfortunately, Postscript does not seem to define
anything parallel to the "pad" idea in SVG. I think this problem can be solved
by creating enough gradients to fill the object, but I have no idea how to do
this.
-Michael Forbes
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On Tue, 10 May 2005, bulia byak wrote:
On 5/10/05, Michael Forbes <miforbes@...555...> wrote:
>
> Can you email me the file? I can't seem to find it in the inkscape-users list
> on SF.
Here it is. The problem with it is that pad="reflect" is ignored in PS output.
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