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On Thu, 12 Jul 2018 22:59:05 +0200
Hans Hagen
hm, I'm puzzled as a shade doesn't go between colors + transparent but from one color to another (in the same color space) and transparency is just a different mechanism
maybe it was some side effect of chosen values / vectors that gave the combined impression (which is why i want to see the pdf made by context that you use as reference)
I just checked some older projects and the older versions. I used a mix between - linear_shade… - withshading("linear"… - withshademethod "linear" … depending on the age of the project. And I fail to find a project using transparent shading where the transparency is done in context. I could not get it working now on the older versions. Maybe you're right and it has never worked the way I thought it had. Sorry for the noise.
\setupbackgrounds [page] [background=color, backgroundcolor=lightgray]
\starttext
\startuseMPgraphic{test} graycolor white; white := 1 ; fill OverlayBox withshademethod "linear" withshadedirection shadedup withshadefactor 1.5 withshadecolors (.85white,white) % withtransparency (multiplytransparent,.7) withtransparency (normaltransparent,.7) \stopuseMPgraphic
\defineoverlay[test][\useMPgraphic{test}]
\framed [align=middle,background={foreground,test}] {\samplefile{sapolsky}}
\stoptext
That's basically shading to the background colour, which gives the impression of transparency. I've been using that. Works most of the time. But it's not the same. See the attached file and compare. I guess I'll keep using the external file overlay then.
Just run the first example with an old context version. The file gradient-t from my last mail was created using inkscape as I don't want a single project to depend on two different context versions. you're kidding ... i have no old context on my machine
Silly me :) Marco