Am So, den 25.01.2004 schrieb Stephen um 18:03: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 09:11:50PM +0530 or thereabouts, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > > colors were messed up. Hunting around we traced it to the loss of > > transparency while exporting. > I would think so, even the Adobe apps show this behaviour. One generally > has better control when writing to postscript, then one does exporting > to file. Exporting is usually quick, painless, but with the pitfalls > you've described. Transparencies have not been possible in Postscript for a long time. It was introduced with Postscript Level 3 some years ago, but requires _every_ machine in a process to have a level 3 interpreter. So "one does not use it". A Postscript-file normally is device-dependant. So many programs that generate ps communicate with the device or look up informations in a driver what level PS they can write. So maybe your program writes level 3 postscript. The situation is different for an eps. An eps is made to place it as a part in new documents in other programs, like a tif or a jpeg. So the eps-writing program can not decide on what kind of machine the eps will be finally used, so it tries to write "compatible" eps files. Without transparencies. Its not a bug, its a feature. In short form: When dealing with postscript, avoid transparencies in any case. Bye, Ratti -- -o) fontlinge | Font management for Linux | Schriftenverwaltung in Linux /\\ http://freshmeat.net/projects/fontlinge/ _\_V http://www.gesindel.de https://sourceforge.net/projects/fontlinge/
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