Re: Repairing a pixellated drop-shadow gradient
"Jason H" <[email protected]> Mon, 15 Apr 2019 17:23:30 +0200
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--===============3099949888131527851== Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8 <html><head></head><body><div style="font-family: Verdana;font-size: 12.0px;"><div> <div>Back in the day 2006? I think gradients and other things were rasterized by adobe (and maybe other) tools. </div> <div>I would suggest trying a gauss blur, with an unsharp mask to get back some edges. But I think once it's been rasterized, you'd have to reconstruct the gradients by sampling/math.</div> <div> </div> <div>HTH</div> <div> <div name="quote" style="margin:10px 5px 5px 10px; padding: 10px 0 10px 10px; border-left:2px solid #C3D9E5; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;"> <div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Sent:</b> Monday, April 15, 2019 at 9:28 AM<br/> <b>From:</b> "Tyler Durden" <[email protected]><br/> <b>To:</b> "Inkscape User Community" <[email protected]><br/> <b>Subject:</b> Re: [Inkscape-user] Repairing a pixellated drop-shadow gradient</div> <div name="quoted-content"> <div>Hi Peter, <div> </div> <div>I examined the file. It looks very much like it was processed as a pdf prior to re-conversion to SVG.</div> <div> </div> <div>You can select the largest group, then ungroup a number of times to get the objects completely separated (watch the information area in the status bar at the bottom of the screen). You can also see an inventory of all objects in the Objects dialog (Menu: Object>Objects). Once you ungroup repeatedly until there are no more groups, you can proceed.</div> <div> </div> <div>You will find a number of embedded images used as clipping objects; they can be deleted without issue.</div> <div> </div> <div>Chime back and keep us posted.</div> <div> </div> <div>Have a nice day.</div> <div>TD</div> </div> <div class="gmail_quote"> <div class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 15, 2019 at 9:01 AM Peter Flynn <<a href="mailto:[email protected]" onclick="parent.window.location.href='mailto:[email protected]'; return false;" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>> wrote:</div> <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.8ex;border-left: 1.0px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left: 1.0ex;">On 15/04/2019 01:13, brynn wrote:<br/> >> If I could actually select the drop-shadow it would be a start.<br/> <br/> The file is at <a href="http://xml.silmaril.ie/downloads/xmlss-cropped.svg" target="_blank">http://xml.silmaril.ie/downloads/xmlss-cropped.svg</a><br/> <br/> > It should be selectable. You would not be able to select the pixels. <br/> <br/> Surely if the drop-shadow was a bitmap I *would* be able to select the<br/> pixels?<br/> <br/> > But you should be able to select the object - the raster image. <br/> <br/> Nope...clicking on any part just selects the entire thing.<br/> <br/> > (Status bar will say "Image....") Just move the whole thing to the<br/> > side, temporarily. After you get the color from it, you can delete it.<br/> ><br/> > If you can't select it alone, check the status bar. I would guess it<br/> > says "Group....". So Ungroup, deselect everything, and try to select it<br/> > again.<br/> <br/> Useful, thanks. But Ungroup has no effect.<br/> <br/> It's weird. I've used Inkscape on and off for years to fix vector<br/> graphics, and never had this problem.<br/> <br/> Thanks so much for all your help.<br/> <br/> ///Peter<br/> <br/> <br/> _______________________________________________<br/> Inkscape-user mailing list<br/> <a href="mailto:[email protected]" onclick="parent.window.location.href='mailto:[email protected]'; return false;" target="_blank">[email protected]</a><br/> <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user</a></blockquote> </div> _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list [email protected] <a href="https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user" target="_blank">https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user</a></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html> --===============3099949888131527851== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline --===============3099949888131527851== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Inkscape-user mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/inkscape-user --===============3099949888131527851==--