Re: Scaling a window background image quickly
Re: Scaling a window background image quickly
- Subject: Re: Scaling a window background image quickly
- From: glenn andreas <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 6 Apr 2008 17:38:05 -0500
On Apr 6, 2008, at 3:30 PM, Mike R. Manzano wrote:
The bottom gradient is curved so it'd be a bit more difficult to do
it with CTGradient, which does linear and radial gradients only.
Regardless, I've abandoned this PDF and opted for a much simpler
design that uses CTGradient and beziers like you've suggested. A
side-effect is that I get better control of scaling. For example,
the "reflection" at the top of the gradient now only scales on the x-
axis instead of both axes.
It's a shame there isn't a more lightweight technology than
Illustrator/PDF that lets you easily draw vector UI elements in a
graphical editor with your application's performance in mind.
Hey, sounds like an opportunity for someone to make some money :)
If only there were some sort of Scalable Vector Graphics format that
were available, oh, yeah, there is - SVG is available via WebKit on
Leopard, not to mention a number of editors that include SVG support
(including the open source InkScape)...
And SVG includes support for things like gradients and some pretty
cool effects, and being XML based, you can even do special
"transforms" to handle special cases...
Glenn Andreas email@hidden
<http://www.gandreas.com/> wicked fun!
quadrium2 | build, mutate, evolve, animate | images, textures,
fractals, art
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