Am 07.12.2012 13:49, schrieb Marco Patzer: > On 2012–12–07 Peter Rolf wrote: > >> Am 06.12.2012 19:35, schrieb Marco: >>> On 2012–12–06 Aditya Mahajan wrote: >>> >>>> I always thought that shadows were possible to do in PDF (after all >>>> TikZ does it using some type of PDF primitives). >>> >>> It is. I use MetaPost to draw the shadows using the shading >>> mechanism: >>> >>> withshading("circular", urcorner bottom_left, urcorner bottom_left, >>> radius, 0) >>> withfromshadecolor \MPcolor{c:transparent} >>> withtoshadecolor col; >>> >> >> Don't mix Type2/3 with Type 4/5 shadings (see my answer to Aditya). They >> are all called 'shadings', but only the latter can be used for the >> creation of realistic looking drop shadows. > > Thanks for pointing that out. I will have a look into my code again. > > I was (and actually I still am) confused by the different shading > methods provided by MetaFun. I admit that I never read the PDF > reference which means that I don't know the shading internals. I > experimented a little and came up with a working solution to add > some eye-candy to presentations. >
Nearly everyone loves eye-candy in presentations. It distracts the observer from the question "What am I doing here....?" ;-) >> And to repeat myself: there is nothing wrong with bitmaps. > > I agree. Even Knuth designed his fonts as bitmaps (at least the > output is a bitmap). However, bitmaps always have a fixed size and > thus are not scalable. > True. I haven't played around with Photoshop or Indesign for years, but the old versions also used bitmaps for their drop shadows. If Adobe as the inventor of PDF does it, ... >> Take the best from both worlds ;-) > > ACK > > And thanks for this nice module and especially for the well-written > documentation. > I tried my best (which means it took a looooooooooooong time). :-) > > Marco > > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the > Wiki! > > maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context > webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net > archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ > wiki : http://contextgarden.net > ___________________________________________________________________________________ > ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________