Is there an "easy" option to do a linear gradient fill that includes an alpha component of the colors? Basically, I want to draw one shape with a gradient fill over a different shape with a different color gradient fill and use an alpha < 1 so that you can see the back shape through the front one.
It looks like the standard option uses the DeviceRGB color space which I understand doesn't have an alpha. I see, for instance, this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40697135/creating-a-gradient-in-background-with-pdfbox I was hoping there was an option to just use a different color space that includes an alpha or something like that. Is there any option that's just a minor variation on the sample code in the StackOverflow answer above? I see this writeup on a substantially more complex approach for the PDF structure (the second section there on "Linear gradients with transparency"): https://github.com/danfickle/neoflyingsaucer/blob/using-pdfbox/pdf-internals-tutorials/linear-gradients.md I also see people complaining that some PDF viewers don't handle transparency well, and I'm not sure whether that's out of date or a problem I might run into even if I got this working. Thanks, Aaron
