Dexie Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 My company is running Vectorworks Landmark on 4 Macs and 4 PC?s; the Macs are able to create effective transparency effects while the PC's aren't. This creates an incompatibility between the platforms. Are there any plans to make transparency available to the PC's or is this an inherent weakness of the operating system. Quote Link to comment
0 grant_PD Posted January 9, 2006 Share Posted January 9, 2006 Are you speaking of transparency as a rendering texture or transparency between layers? Quote Link to comment
0 Bart Rammeloo Posted January 10, 2006 Share Posted January 10, 2006 As far as I know, there's currently no acceptable technology that allows you to achieve the same kind of transparancy at the same speed on the Windows platform. There are technologies (otherwise Illustrator wouldn't be able to use transparancy), but they're too slow for typical CAD-drawings with lots of surfaces and lines. The incompatibility is solved when you switch off Quartz on the Mac. You then go back to the same system as in 11.5 and older versions. [ 01-10-2006, 05:29 AM: Message edited by: BaRa ] Quote Link to comment
0 Dexie Posted January 20, 2006 Author Share Posted January 20, 2006 It seems that we may have to consider replacing the PC's as we can now produce subtle transparent effect between layers on the Macintosh platform. This is a vast improvement over the 'Overlay' option prviously available on both platforms. We can produce any symbol on a transparent layer say 40% transparency which reaveals information on lower layers to show through. This has taken presentation drawings to a higher level. Quote Link to comment
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My company is running Vectorworks Landmark on 4 Macs and 4 PC?s; the Macs are able to create effective transparency effects while the PC's aren't.
This creates an incompatibility between the platforms.
Are there any plans to make transparency available to the PC's or is this an inherent weakness of the operating system.
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