Bug 69483

Not reproducible on LO 4.0.5.2 (Win7 32bit), using both Lossless & JPEG compression while exporting to PDF.

me neither with 4.1.1.2 under Win7 64bit

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Clarification of reproduction:

1. background of the page has a picture of the whole area.
2. write any text in the document
3. in addition, an image with transparency insert, like a signature (gif, png)!
4. creating a PDF
5. confirm the dialogue that transparency is removed

When you open this PDF in Acrobat Reader you can see the text only for a short moment. After completely loading the file the text an the image disappears. You only see the image from the background.

This effect does not occur if no additional transparency image is inserted.

Test with the example file.

@Günther Breitfuß 

I confirm that exporting your test file to PDF (without editing it) works fine on my PC. the PDF output is correctly shown by Acrobat 7.1 and Foxit Reader 5.4.

which Acrobat reader version do you use? have you tried opening the PDF output with another viewer or in another computer?

(In reply to comment #4)
> @Günther Breitfuß 
> 
> I confirm that exporting your test file to PDF (without editing it) works
> fine on my PC. the PDF output is correctly shown by Acrobat 7.1 and Foxit
> Reader 5.4.
> 
> which Acrobat reader version do you use? have you tried opening the PDF
> output with another viewer or in another computer?

-> NEEDINFO from bug submitter.

Am 08.10.2013 00:08, schrieb bugzilla-daemon@freedesktop.org:
> Jorendc <mailto:jorendc@libreoffice.org> changed bug 69483 
> <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69483>
> What 	Removed 	Added
> Status 	UNCONFIRMED 	NEEDINFO
> CC 		jorendc@libreoffice.org
> Ever confirmed 		1
>
> *Comment # 5 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69483#c5> 
> on bug 69483 <https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69483> from 
> Jorendc <mailto:jorendc@libreoffice.org> *
> (In reply tocomment #4  <show_bug.cgi?id=69483#c4>)
> > @Günther Breitfuß
> >
> > I confirm that exporting your test file to PDF (without editing it) works
> > fine on my PC. the PDF output is correctly shown by Acrobat 7.1 and Foxit
> > Reader 5.4.
> >
> > which Acrobat reader version do you use? have you tried opening the PDF
> > output with another viewer or in another computer?
>
> -> NEEDINFO from bug submitter.
   I need Acrobat Reader XI. It's the same effect on many other 
computers (I test 4 pc's with win xp an win 7): writer-file with image 
(png) on full background as submission -> fill in a transparent grafic 
(gif or png) an optional text -> generate pdf (reduction the transparent 
) -> on load the new pdf with acrobat you will see the background and 
the transparent image (and the optional text) for a half second, after 
only the background.
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Please do not reply on the email you receive, but browse to the bug report itself, and leave a comment over there. (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=69483)
Replying to the email result in a lot of noise.

Marking as UNCONFIRMED again.

Kind regards,
Joren

> 5. confirm the dialogue that transparency is removed

this means checking the "PDF/A-1a" box in the PDF export dialog.

cannot reproduce this on 4.1.1.2 or 4.2.0.4, both with PDF/A-1a enabled and disabled,
on Linux when viewing the PDFs with Okular/Evince and "gv"
(so 2 different PDF renderers)

however i can reproduce the bug on current master,
with PDF/A-1a enabled only the background image is visible in Okular and gv.

but if Günther says it fails for him in 4.1.1.2 i'm wondering if it
"works by accident" for me, if the XPdf/Ghostscript based programs
are buggy, if the Acrobat Reader is buggy, if it only fails on Windows,
or if there are actually 2 different bugs with the same effect...

oops now i realize my mistake: the bug happens on master only when
both "lossless" images and "PDF/A-1a" are enabled... sigh... let's re-do this...

ok this is broken in 4.1.0 release, in 4.0.0, in 3.6.7, in 3.5.7, in 3.4.6,
in OOo 3.3, oh actually the newest working version is OOo 3.2.1.

adjusting summary accordingly... well at least the work-around is obvious :)