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[Daniel J Sebald]

Shai Ayal wrote:

>     In my opinion, the right way is for PostScript to handle alpha
>     blending.  Wish it would.  It's the easiest place to implement such
>     a feature, i.e., at the last step just blend the contents together.
> 
> 
> Does postscript support blending?

Not that I know of Shai.  There is a summary at this wiki page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transparency_%28graphic%29#Transparency_in_PostScript

Scan down to the PostScript entry.

Dan