The soft mask in a PDF can be vector based, quite similar to using an isolated group as layer mask in PhotoLine.mwenz hat geschrieben:What I do know are the ramifications of live transparency from a PDF/X-4 file when brought into a different applications. So InDesign, QuarkXpress, AI, XDP, etc., when they bring in a vector illustration that originates in another application that is a PDF/X-4 file, the transparency is then (can be) passed through into the PDF/X-4 PDF for print. All flattening then happens at the RIP, which is the best place for it to occur.
Well, now we are back at the start of the discussion . Ono wanted transparent gradients to stay vector graphics, and I said, that may take a while.mwenz hat geschrieben:A PhotoLine PDF containing a vector with a gradient going from color to transparent is flattened to an image when the PDF is created.
Martin