[pstricks] Transparency not working here.

[John Culleton]

On Sunday 28 October 2007 03:10:37 am Herbert Voss wrote:
> John Culleton schrieb:
> > I have been away from pstricks for a while. I tried to get the
> > transparency to work but obviously I am doing something wrong, or else
> > don't have all the components. First I downloaded the new pstricks.tex
> > 1.16b as cited in HVs recent posts. Then I tried my test file (below) it
> > in both tex and pdftex. Here is my code, cribbed from HV of course:
> >
> > \pdfoutput 0
> > \input pstricks.tex
> > x
> > \vskip 3in
> > %\begin{pspicture}(5,5)
> >  \psset{fillstyle=solid}
> >  \psframe[fillcolor=red](0,1)(3,4)
> >  \psframe[fillcolor=blue,opacity=0.7](2,2)(5,5)
> >  \psframe[fillcolor=green,opacity=0.7](1,0)(4,3)
> >  \pscircle[fillcolor=cyan,
> >  opacity=0.5](1.5,3.5){1.25}
> > % \end{pspicture}
> > \vfil
> > \bye
> >
> > The cyan circle is slightly transparent but has strange bands across it. 
> > The
>
> \pscircle[linestyle=none,fillcolor=cyan, opacity=0.5](1.5,3.5){1.25}
>
> > other colors show no transparency at all.  This is when viewed in xpdf
> > and kpdf.
> >
> > In acrobat Reader 8 there is no transparency at all.
> >
> > I used dvips and then ps2pdf to get to a pdf file. My dvips is
> > version 5.96.
> > Do I need something else?
>
> you need to run
>
> ps2pdf -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 file.ps
>
> or alternative
>
> ps2pdf14 file.ps
>
> Herbert
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And it works! 

Thanks for all you do. 

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