InDesign writes fades as luminosity soft masks whose group is one
extended axial `sh` over the whole page. hayro 0.7 sampled every such
shading pixel by pixel through the shading function, so a report page
with 40 of them took 10-15 s at 144 dpi.
Backport hayro 0.8.0's `gradient` module: an axial or radial shading
that a native gradient draws exactly becomes sRGB stops (within 0.01
per channel, a stop at every stitching bound), painted as a vello_cpu
gradient. Upstream's half-pixel shift is left out: it suits vello_cpu
0.3 but moves 0.0.8's gradients off pixel centres.
Page 4 of the reported file: 10.8 s -> 1.0 s.
Co-authored-by: Claude Opus 5.5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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