On Do, 2004-10-21 at 14:09 +0200, Craig Bradney wrote: > On Thursday 21 October 2004 13:27, Owen Cook wrote: > > On Thu, 21 Oct 2004, David Christian Berg wrote: > > > Please, someone just give me an answer to this quite simple question. I > > > mean many of you must be using this every day. > > > How's the svg import doing? > > > > OK, > > > > well I just created a svg with 54% opacity and a coloured gradiet using > > Inkscape 0.39. > > > > I then imported it in Scribus-1.2.1 CVS 14 Oct 2004. > > > > It showed the image and it properties revealed that its opacity was 54% > > > > I then saved it as a pdf and acrobat-5.0.8 read and rendered it ok > > > > xpdf-3.0 (I think) rendered the gradient but not the opacity > > > Yes.. transparencies are not yet supported in xpdf and therefore kpdf (which > now uses the xpdf 3.0 engine), not in gpdf.
Thanx a lot guys, so with Scribus-1.2.1 I can actually use transparencies and create a pdf. The fact that xpdf doesn't render it properly doesn't matter since I need the pdf for people with windoze anyways. David
