Re: OpenOffice exporting EPS files

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@debian.org>]

On Tue, 14 Dec 2004, David Purton wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 04:42:00PM -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote:
> >     Why do the EPS files exported by OpenOffice have opaque colors in
> > the place of transparent objects ? Is this an OpenOffice bug or a
> 
> behind? Or do you mean a translucent filled square that you can see
> through?
> 
> The latter case is not supported by EPS.

Directly, no.  But it is not impossible to *reproduce* it using EPS, as long
as you don't want the EPS itself to be transparent (i.e. blend it to
something that is behind it).

Arguably, oo.org should be flattening all alpha channels where one does not
have 100% transparency.  Heck of a lot of trouble to do that, though... but
it would "emulate" the transparency on the EPS.  It would have to assume the
background color to do so, though.

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