Bug 74202

Summary: Transparency doesn't display correctly in PDF from adobe illustrator
Product: poppler Reporter: Germán Poo-Caamaño <gpoo+bfdo>
Component: generalAssignee: poppler-bugs <poppler-bugs>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: medium    
Version: unspecified   
Hardware: Other   
OS: All   
See Also: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723261
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Attachments: PDF test case that it is rendered properly
PDF test case that transparency is not rendered as expected

Description Germán Poo-Caamaño 2014-01-30 00:45:37 UTC
Created attachment 93018 [details]
PDF test case that it is rendered properly

This was reported in https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=723261

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I created a simple pdf with alpha transparency and it looks fine in evince.
However, I need to interact with adobe illustrator for work. When AI opens the
pdf and saves it again, and then I load that pdf that was generated by AI in
evince, then the transparency is broken. Everything looks opaque instead of
transparent.

However, I can open the pdf that is generated by AI in Foxit Reader (on a
computer running windows) and it looks fine. Another workaround is if I save
from AI as PDF1.3 instead of PDF1.7 then it works, but I would rather not have
to do this.

I am using Linux Mint 16 and the version of evince from the package manager
(3.6.1 using cairo/poppler 0.24.1). I can provide more system details upon
request.

I have attached the original file (transparency.pdf) which looks fine. And I
have attached the file that is produced by AI (transparency_fromai.pdf) which
looks wrong in evince.

I realize this is probably more of a bug in AI than it is in evince, but I
would appreciate any suggestions for how I can open these PDF1.7 files in
evince and view the transparency.
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The problem is reproducible with poppler-glib and poppler-qt4-demo using the Arthur backend.  The Splash backend renders the document correctly, as well as
acroread.
Comment 1 Germán Poo-Caamaño 2014-01-30 00:46:46 UTC
Created attachment 93019 [details]
PDF test case that transparency is not rendered as expected
Comment 2 Jason Crain 2015-12-25 04:08:12 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 91931 ***

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