Re: [NTG-context] Shading and transparency

On 7/11/2018 11:40 PM, Marco Patzer wrote:

On Wed, 11 Jul 2018 23:11:31 +0200 Hans Hagen wrote:

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Is there a method that does not require an external file or pre-processing? Using the external file works. Just wondering if there's a better - more integrated - way. i guess that with some experimenting you can come close but the external file that you use uses masks (actually we do support masks in external figures) and multiple shades over something in the page stream

For the old implementation (pre 2016-ish) I had a working solution because shading to transparent colours just worked (at least in my case of a simple transparent shade, nothing fancy), but not so any longer. With the new implementation I couldn't get it working. But we discussed that at some point in the past. I believe the gist of it was “shade-to-transparent is gone”.

i'm not ssure what shade to transparency means ... shades can be transparent currently .. so how did that old file (uncompressed pdf) look like then

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stuff i'd only look into when i have to (in principle one can make all kind of fancy mechanisms but does it pay off ... seldom)

If there's no easy solution, it's alright. If have a workaround. No need to waste time on exotic features (as long as masks in external figures keep working). Still, if you happen to know a trick to pull that off in ConTeXt, let me know.

Marco

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