On Tuesday 27 February 2007 07:59, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > 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!!
I used Inkscape to design the logo. The gradient only has two stops, but it uses the "reflected" repeat style. I'm not sure whether PS can do that, and if not, how hard it is to convert from a single reflected gradient into a combination of several simpler gradient-filled shapes. > 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? It looks like this failed to work. > 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). That could be an option, to convert it to a high-res bitmap and embed that into the PDF. Not as nice, but if it works then it works. Lourens
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