[pdftex] Color gradient with pdflatex

[Jörg Ebeling]

Hi,


Reinhard Kotucha wrote:

>>>>>>"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!
>  
>
Wooow, just made a fast look to "pgf" which seems to be really
impressive !!!
I haven't known this package even I develope since years in LaTeX.
This package will solve some other workarounds I made during the last years.

Lot thanks for this great info !!


Cya
    Jörg


>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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