Re: Colour Gradients

[Michael Hennebry <hennebry web cs ndsu nodak edu>]

On Fri, 6 Nov 2009, Steffen Macke wrote:

> > 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?

It does have a bit of kludginess to it.
Postscript 3 does shading.
Does that help?

> > 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.

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