GS 9.53 and transparency

Uwe Siart uwe.siart at tum.de
Tue Mar 31 09:20:12 CEST 2020


Bruno Voisin via tex-live <tex-live at tug.org> writes:

> Looking closer (in particular the reworked transparency_example.ps), the fix
> seems to remove setopacityalpha, which forms the basis of pstricks' transparency
> support for gs, and setshapealpha, replacing them by setfillconstantalpha and
> setstrokeconstantalpha. So much for backward compatibility!

How aggravating this is. I'm a heavy user of PSTricks and I sincerely
hope that Herbert will be able to make the necessary changes. Anyhow, it
will mean that recent PSTricks needs recent Ghostscript and vice versa.

-- 
Uwe


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