Dieter wrote:
But does postscript support the same types of gradients that SVG does?=20
SVG lets you make pretty complex gradients, and while the PS version of=20
the poster does have some kind of gradient, it's not the same as the=20
SVG version. So either there's a bug in the conversion, or PS just=20
doesn't support complex gradients.
I don't know what you mean by "complex gradients". My copy of the red book
has wandered off, but PS is a full blown programming language, so I imagine
it can do what you want.
I know more about SVG then I do about PostScript. SVG does complicated
things with gradients. Except for the end conditions, I would avoid
them. Multiple stops are not a good idea. If you are using PhotoShop,
avoid Adobe extensions to SVG!!
Taking a quick glance at the wikipedia SVG page, looks like someone decided
to create yet another graphics language, a couple of browsers have partial
support, Adobe will drop support in less than a year, yadda yadda yadda...
The final output is supposed to be a large piece of paper, right? What
language(s) does the printer speak? Probably not SVG.
The printer probably speaks 'printer' unless it has PostScript built in.
So the test is if GV will properly display the PostScript file.
IAC, I would make an SVG with InkScape and print it to a PostScript
file. Where are we with this -- did this fail to work? Or, are we
using something else?
IIRC, Squiggle doesn't print PostScript -- only (high resolution)
bitmap. I don't think that the Adobe NS Plugin will work with the
current GLibc so it doesn't much matter what it will do. :-( There
might be GNOME stuff that would work. I don't have much faith in
KOffice (Karbon14-1.6.2 is out and it is supposed to convert SVG to EPS).
--
JRT
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