[pdftex] Color gradient with pdflatex

[Reinhard Kotucha]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin Schröder <martin at oneiros.de> writes:

  > On 2006-04-07 21:56:50 +0200, Jörg Ebeling wrote:
  >> Does anybody knows a package with which color gradients could be
  >> build BUT don't require the PSTricks package ?!

  > Check out MetaPost;

You probably need MetaFun in order to use real PDF color gradients.

  >  or you can directly use PDF operands with \pdfliteral.

It's easier to use higher-level commands as provided by pgf.  Even the
low-level commands of pgf provide an abstraction layer to make them
independent of the output format, i.e. they will work with pdftex (PDF
output), dvipdfm, and dvips and even with tex4ht!

In other words, you can have inline graphics in plain/LaTeX/Context
documents and can produce output files in PDF, PostScript or HTML.
If you produce HTML, the graphics will be in SVG.

There are a few things you cannot do with pgf (yet) which you can do
with MetaPost/MetaFun or pstricks.  Anyway, the LaTeX picture
environment and PicTeX are completely obsolete now and cannot be
recommended anymore.

   http://ctan.org/tex-archive/graphics/pgf/doc/generic/pgf/version-for-pdftex/en/pgfmanual.pdf

Regards,
  Reinhard

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