Re: Shaded Venn diagrams

[Scott Lamb <slamb slamb org>]

On Nov 25, 2003, at 6:40 AM, Cyrille Chepelov wrote:

> Le Tue, Nov 25, 2003, à 04:36:21AM -0600, Scott Lamb a écrit:
>
>> I think it would be a lot clearer if I could have better shading. Is 
>> it
>> possible in Dia to have the shading of two objects mix in their
>> overlapping region? I.e., could I make the Streams color greenish, the
>> Pollable color reddish, and have their overlap yellowish? I think that
>> would make this a much better diagram.
>
> Unfortunately, not at this point. We don't even support background
> colour transparency (I think that sodipodi does, FWIW)

Okay. Sorry to hear that, but thanks for the response.

I just tried out OmniGraffle on my OS X laptop, and had a pretty good 
result. Disappointing to not use a free/open source tool, but I'll 
live. <http://www.slamb.org/svn/repos/projects/atoms/descriptors.pdf>.

Thanks,
Scott Lamb