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.
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.
It appears that a ShadingType 2 has built in support for extending
beyond the end points like InkScape does.
It appears (page 266 & 267 PLRM) that a ShadingType 2 dictionary can
include a function definition. If none is defined, then a linear
shading is used, however, you should be able to define a f(t) do do
whatever you want.
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JRT
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