Re: [NTG-context] shading in metapost

2008-01-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 16, 2008, at 11:22 PM, John Luciani wrote: There is some information on doing transparencies in METAPOST at http://www-math.univ-poitiers.fr/~phan/metalpha.html Using the code at the above link you should be able to produce the effect in your jpeg. (* jcl *) John, I never thanked

Re: [NTG-context] shading in metapost

2008-01-24 Thread Aditya Mahajan
Hi Thomas, On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: On Jan 24, 2008, at 1:28 AM, Mojca Miklavec wrote: In theory possible, but in practice not implemented in metafun. But see http://www.fauskes.net/media/pgf/pgfmanualCVS2008-01-23.pdf It might satisfy your needs. (Impressive!)

Re: [NTG-context] shading in metapost

2008-01-24 Thread Thomas A. Schmitz
On Jan 24, 2008, at 9:03 AM, Aditya Mahajan wrote: Hi Thomas, On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: I wanted to be clever and do it in a for-loop like this: for i=1 upto 10: pickup pencircle scaled (i*0.5) pt ; draw fullcircle scaled 5mm withcolor transparent

Re: [NTG-context] shading in metapost

2008-01-24 Thread Hans Hagen
Thomas A. Schmitz wrote: I never thanked you for your message; sorry about that! Unless I'm missing something, this page is just about transparency, but that works quite well in metafun; it was the combination of transparency and shading which I couldn't get right. in mkiv at some

[NTG-context] pdfsync / editsnc

2008-01-24 Thread Steffen Wolfrum
Hi, in the garden I read that editsnc in 2003 was regarded the successor of pdfsync. Anybody has experience with one of them? Or the other way round: I am interested in pdf/source sync. Any recommendations? Thanks, Steffen