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Authored by: Peganthyrus on May 19, '01 07:39:31PM

Being an artist whose favorite graphics program is Illustrator, one of the first things I tried upon installing X was to use an Illustrator 9 file as a backdrop - up to 8, Illustrator's native format was EPS, with 9 it changed to PDF, which is really just EPS with a new name and a few tweaks anyway.

However...

it didn't really work. Even going back to Illustrator and using the save as PDF option resulted in an image that was screwy.

This was a fairly complicated file, I admit - gradient mesh, funky blends, lots of subtle transparancy. I haven't re-tried this experiment with newer versions of X. Now that I think about it, perhaps I should see if this is something that's been improved in 10.0.3...



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Authored by: Peganthyrus on May 19, '01 09:03:36PM

Nope, I just did some semi-exhaustive testing (Illustrator 9-generated native .AI, ,PDF, and .EPS) and it still just completely failed to render properly...

Your mileage may vary, Of course, in normal use, you'd probably want to render the image to a bitmap anyway, for faster boot-ups.

While I'm on the subject, am I the only person who's annoyed at the fact that there are no options for how your backdrop is displayed? No centering on a background of some chosen color, just tiling.



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