Hi Heiko,
Heiko Tietze schrieb:
Hello all,
the LibreOffice conference gave me the chance to present some ideas regarding
Draw and shapes in general. One of the most wanted features is the multistop
gradient. Today we can define gradients between two colors, either linear,
radial, or whatever. It would be nice to have a) non-linear multistop
gradients, for example to illustrate a sundown with a small red and a larger
yellow section, and b) a gradient over more than two colors, e.g. in order to
add blue sky to the sundown.
Since Calligra offers multicolor gradients, Armin and me checked how it is
saved (the rendering is build-in right now). And it turns out that they hack
SVG into the ODF.
That is no "hack SVG into ODF ". The feature "svg-gradient is in ODF
from the beginning. In ODF 1.1 it is in "14.14.2 SVG Gradients", and in
ODF 1.2 it is in 16.40.2<svg:linearGradient>,
16.40.3<svg:radialGradient> and 16.40.4<svg:stop> and its attributes in
chapter 19. Only OpenOffice.org had no implementation for it.
The request for LO is in
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=94588
For the (predefined) rainbow-like gradient the style.xml looks like this:
<svg:linearGradient draw:name="gradient1" svg:spreadMethod="pad" svg:x1="0.000000%"
svg:x2="100.000000%" svg:y1="0.000000%" svg:y2="100.000000%">
<svg:stop svg:offset="0" svg:stop-color="#ff0000"/><svg:stop svg:offset="0.183575" svg:stop-color="#ffe100"/><svg:stop svg:offset="0.347826" svg:stop-color="#00ff00"/><svg:stop
svg:offset="0.516908" svg:stop-color="#00ffff"/><svg:stop svg:offset="0.68599" svg:stop-color="#0000ff"/><svg:stop svg:offset="0.845411" svg:stop-color="#ff00fb"/><svg:stop
svg:offset="1" svg:stop-color="#ff0004"/>
</svg:linearGradient>
A true "rainbow" is not possible, because that needs a HSB color model.
So using stops is the only way to do it as SVG gradient. The quoted
snippet is all valid ODF.
ODF has some restrictions compared to SVG. But starting with that, what
is currently possible in ODF, would help a lot. And I personally see no
problem in getting further SVG features into ODF1.3 if needed and an
implementation exists.
As an UX evangelist I don't care too much about the implementation
But I do. I prefer a solution with clean ODF.
Therefore I do not want an isolated, workaround solution for OOXML
import as touched upon in
https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=76682 and was
proposed in https://gerrit.libreoffice.org/#/c/12056/
and have rather the workflow and interactions in mind.
It needs another UI. The linear bar as in PowerPoint is not the only
possible solution. I like more the two dimensional way, where you define
a way in a color area. (I just don't remember, where I saw it.)
Ideally the multi-gradient works with all features, and not as another
type next to linear, radial etc. (There might be a problem that result
in this sub-optimal solution).
It is another kind of gradient. The <draw:gradient> kind 'rectangle' and
'square' are not possible with SVG.
And finally we have to take interoperability into account as well as the
conformity to the ODF specs (no idea if and how it is defined).
See above.
So how do we make multistop/multicolor gradients possible?
There exists already rendering solutions in rendering SVG-images.
Cheers,
Heiko
PS: Suggestions on how to implement this feature in the UI are existing.
Where?
Kind regards
Regina
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