[scribus] Small triangles when gradient diagonally

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 30.11.2014 07:07, schrieb Owen Cook:
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>> Sent: Saturday, November 29, 2014 at 11:25 PM
>> From: "Rolf-Werner Eilert" <eilert-sprachen at t-online.de>
>> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
>> Subject: Re: [scribus] Small triangles when gradient diagonally
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>> Am 29.11.2014 06:26, schrieb Owen Cook:
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>>>> Sent: Friday, November 28, 2014 at 8:18 PM
>>>> From: "Rolf-Werner Eilert" <eilert-sprachen at t-online.de>
>>>> To: scribus at lists.scribus.net
>>>> Subject: [scribus] Small triangles when gradient diagonally
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>>>> I'm designing a Roll-Up with Scribus, and there is a slight gray
>>>> gradient I have placed in a text box on the lower-most level.
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>>>> When producing a PDF for preview, on my system there appear 2 white
>>>> triangles (upper right and lower left) in this box, i. e. you can see
>>>> how the diagonal gradient is produced by circling its graphical box by
>>>> 45°. In Scribus I cannot see this, it appears in the PDF only.
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>>>> Obviously, the width isn't adapted enough, so it doesn't fill the whole
>>>> text box.
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>>>> Thank you for your advice.
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>>> Hi Rolf,
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>>> I am not sure I understand what you are doing.
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>>> I created a text box in 1.4.5 and filled it with a black to white gradient, top to bottom. Then exported it to pdf (1.5)
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>>> Could not see any triangles.
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>>> Maybe you could post the sla of your problem document?
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>> Sure, I'll attach a version with the background gray only. Just tried it
>> out, the resulting PDF shows the white edges in the gray box. The one at
>> lower left is a bit covered by the red strip, but still visible.
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>> Maybe it's a matter of gray color on my screen only when shown as a PDF,
>> and will not print like this? But how should I know?
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>> URL         : <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20141129/3bada8e1/attachment.bin>
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> OK, that file when exported to pdf and viewed in Okular showed a document with a red column on the left and the remaining space filled with a slight gradient. See  http://members.pcug.org.au/~rcook/images/attatchment.pdf.png
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> Looking at the properties of the two text boxes, I note that the Y position and height are different, so wonder if that contributes to your view.
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> Owen
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John Culleton asked for the viewer - that was the reason. I used an old 
KPDF instead of a more current one.

Thanks for your help guys!

Rolf