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#489 fadings with xelatex can't be used in different sizes

v1.0 (example)
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nobody
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2018-08-09
2018-08-09
U_Fischer
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xelatex (and latex/dvipdfmx) uses for fadings \pgfsys@fadingfrombox. This means that fadings can't be used in different sizes:

\documentclass{report}

\usepackage{tikz}
\usetikzlibrary{fadings}

\definecolor{lightGrey}{gray}{0.94}

\pagestyle{empty}

\begin{document}

\pgfdeclarefading{fading2}
{\tikz \shade[left color=pgftransparent!0,
right color=pgftransparent!100] (0,0) rectangle (2,2);}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\fill [black!20] (0,0) rectangle (2,2);
\pgfsetfading{fading2}{\pgftransformshift{\pgfpoint{1cm}{1cm}}}
\fill [red] (0,0) rectangle (2,2);
\end{tikzpicture}

\pgfdeclarefading{fading2}
{\tikz \shade[left color=pgftransparent!0,
 right color=pgftransparent!100] (0,0) rectangle (4,4);}
\begin{tikzpicture}
\fill [black!20] (0,0) rectangle (4,4);
\pgfsetfading{fading2}{\pgftransformshift{\pgfpoint{2cm}{2cm}}}
\fill [red] (0,0) rectangle (4,4);
\end{tikzpicture}

\end{document}

This means that e.g. drop shadows don't work at different sizes with xelatex. See e.g. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/445248/tikzpicture-blur-show-up-incorrectly/445321#445321

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