On 8/10/07, glenn andreas <email@hidden> wrote:
> So the bottom line is that anything beyond simple lines, rects, ovals
> and arcs you're going to have to go through a lot of work to make a
> decent looking PICT for the various "nice looking" PDF/Quartz
> features, often resorting to, you guessed it, rendering a bitmap.
To be clear, this is all I really need. I'm drawing pie and bar
graphs with text labels. I'd *love* for it to be as pretty as a PDF
equivalent, but that's not possible, apparently, without a *lot* of
work.
> Quickdraw doesn't have any sort of alpha transparency at all - it
> does support per component alpha masks on bitmap drawing
> (CopyDeepMask), but that's not exactly the same (see above comment
> about how QD treats the byte that one would expect to be used as alpha).
Now *this* bothers me. The existing version of this application,
which uses PowerPlant, yields only one pasteboard type: PICT. There
*is* "transparency", though there may be a slight difference in
definition: I mean anywhere there *isn't* drawing is "transparent" (no
fill in the background). I *don't* mean "a translucent pie graph",
those tend not to print well anyway. ;-)
Given that distinction, can you be more specific about the
limitations you mentioned?
--
I.S.
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