Re: Colour Gradients

[Steffen Macke <sdteffen gmail com>]

Hi Will,

> The only work-around I've been able to find is to do the area of colour
> gradient as a bitmap in GNU Image Manipulation Program then use the bitmap
> in a Dia diagram. I've looked through the recent dia-list Archives but not

Is there any problem with this approach? If you need specific shapes, have you
thought about masking a rectangular colour gradient created in GIMP
with a "white" polygon?

> I noticed that the "PC Video" shape on the "Cisco - Computer" sheet has a
> sort of colour gradient as part of it which seems ot work fairly well
> (although this gradient doesn't scale up so well).

It just contains many different subshapes with different shades of gray.

Steffen