[Scribus] exporting PDF / SVG gradients...

Peter von Weisz peter
Mon Oct 16 13:16:51 CEST 2006


Peter,

I have tried running the vanilla 1.3.3.4 but this produces the same results.
That's why I'm trying the CVS version.. ;-)

Regards,
Peter

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Subject: Re: [Scribus] exporting PDF / SVG gradients...


On Monday 16 October 2006 12:33, Peter von Weisz wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have been using Scribus to design a company's PDF brochure and a
> AD. I must say that I'm really impressed with what you can do and
> how well it actually works. I'm running Scribus 1.3.3.4cvs (built
> date 21 aug) on Windows XP (Ghostscript 8.5.3) at work and Scribus
> 1.3.3.3 on Fedora Core 4 at home. Both work equally well, but I
> have a problem exporting a logo (imported from a SVG) containing a
> gradient.
>
> The logo is made in Adobe Illustrator and then exported to a SVG.
> The funny thing is that it looks somewhat correct. I'll try to
> explain. =) This is a ASCII representation of what it SHOULD look
> like. The middle field (white) is on a layer above the gradient
> (the "g"), and the gradient is one object.
> .---------.
>
> |ggg| |ggg|
> |ggg| |ggg|
> |ggg| |ggg|
>
> `---------?
>
> When exported it looks like this, where the "s" is a solid colour
> (it's one of the base colours in the gradient):
> .---------.
>
> |ggg| |sss|
> |ggg| |sss|
> |ggg| |sss|
>
> `---------?
>
> As you can tell, I'm not an ASCII artist, but I hope that you get
> the idea.. ;-)
>
> The logo looks OK on the screen in Scribus, I get this only when
> exporting to PDF, when exporting to a PNG it looks OK.
>
> Is there some export settings in Illustrator that need to be
> checked? Export settings in Scribus? I can send the SVG off-list if
> someone wants to have a look at it.
>
> Thanks a lot in advance,
> Peter von Weisz


First, please try  1.3.3.4 which has many gradient fixes with SVG and
advise if this fixes it or not.

Thanks,
Peter



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