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CreateAxialShading(PathPoint, PathPoint, IReadOnlyList) Method

Definition

Namespace Broadside
Assembly Broadside.dll
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Creates an axial shading (Type 2) that blends between gradient stops along the line from start to end.

public PdfAxialShading CreateAxialShading(PathPoint start, PathPoint end, IReadOnlyList<PdfGradientStop> stops)

Parameters

start
PathPoint

The point where offset 0 lies, in the shading's target space.

end
PathPoint

The point where offset 1 lies; not start.

stops
IReadOnlyList<PdfGradientStop>

The stops, as for CreateGradientFunction(IReadOnlyList<PdfGradientStop>); their colour space is the shading's.

Returns

PdfAxialShading
The shading, a new indirect dictionary, as read back.

Remarks

ISO 32000-2 §8.7.4.5.3, Table 79 (PDF 1.3). Coords is the axis, Domain [0 1], and the Function is written inline as CreateGradientFunction(IReadOnlyList<PdfGradientStop>) builds it. Paint it with PaintShading(PdfShading) or through CreateShadingPattern(PdfShading, Nullable<Matrix>). Records PDF 1.3. A mutation.