Hi Stephan, MP handles text and graphics in different ways. First read
http://www.pragma-ade.com/general/manuals/mmakempy.pdf (this should answer some of your questions). You find the needed tools at http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/ http://www.pstoedit.net/ http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/download.html I have tested this some years ago and it worked without problems. A fast run with the old code ended in the nirvana for pstoedit (3.44) :( I don't know if this is a general problem, so just give it a try. If you get it to work, you can try the nice 'graphictext' in combination with 'withshade'. HTH, Peter Mojca Miklavec wrote: > The ConTeXt mailing list is probably more suitable for this > discussion, so I'm redirecting your question there (if anyone responds > to it). > > On 5/2/07, Stephan Hennig wrote: >> Hi, >> >> my attempt to shade a piece of text with MetaFun fails (see below). Is >> this a restriction of MetFun/MetaPost or of the PDF format? >> >> While there is an explicit example for transparent text in metafun-p.pdf >> on p. 185 I didn't find one for shaded text. Is shading text possible? >> >> Best regards, >> Stephan Hennig >> >> input metafun >> beginfig(1); >> sh_sqr := define_linear_shade(origin, (100bp,0), white, blue); >> sh_txt := define_linear_shade(origin, (100bp,0), white, red); >> fill unitsquare scaled 100bp withshade sh_sqr; >> label("Not shaded!", (50,50)) withshade sh_txt; >> endfig; >> end >> >> Compile with >> >> mpost shad >> mptopdf shad > > ---------- > > On 5/6/07, Stephan Hennig wrote: >> Mojca Miklavec schrieb: >>> It should be possible to do it inside PDF, but it's not implemented (yet?). >> Thanks. Would be a nice feature for, e.g., invitation cards. > > PDF uses 8 different kinds of text: filled, stroked (already > implemented with \starteffect[outline]...\stopeffect), ... and some > others. > > See Chapter 5.2 of PDF reference manual. You probably need Text > rendering type 4. Extending support for it would be a nice excercise > in metafun programming, but I'm too slow to figure it out in a > reasonable time. I *really* need to finish extending smooth shading > patterns to a more generic model, and I will keep your problem in mind > in case it remains unsolved, but don't count on me if you need it now. > > There are some people on the ConTeXt mailing list (apart from Hans of > course) who might be able to help. > > Mojca > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
