Version: SVN-trunk from yesterday (using KDE Devel) Installed from: Compiled sources Compiler: gcc (GCC) 3.3.3 (SuSE Linux) OS: Linux I currently play with Scribus 1.2 and 1.3 and export PDFs from the documents I create. (Scribus is known for creating widely standards-compiliant PDF files). I'd like to use the Scribus Template I create for use during the LinuxPrinting.org booth at the upcoming LWE in San Fransisco. It would be a pity if KPDF failed me there.... I'll attach 3 examples. The Scribus file itself is created with Scribus-1.3cvs (self-compiled from CVS), and exported as PDF-1.3, 1.4 and 1.5 respectively. Note 1: the 1.3 PDF isn't rendering in Acrobat Reader 7.0 (Linux version) either -- so this could be a bug in a) acroread, b) Scribus or c) it could be a limitation of the PDF-1.3 format altogether. Note 2: the Scribus document I was creating uses an ex-SVG file (rendered to PNG by "ksvg2png") as a background layer. Page 1 has a setting of 12%, page 2 one of 17% for the background picture. This could also be an xpdf bug/lack of feature. It may not be kpdf's fault at all, and could be solved by future poppler usage. Anyway -- if you close the bug, keep at least the files for reference... Cheers, Kurt :-) P.S.: I'll also notify the Scribus developers about this, so they can check themselves.
Created attachment 11822 [details] PDF 1.3 exported from Scribus-1.3cvs (today's build) (PDF-1.3 indeed does not support transparency)
Created attachment 11823 [details] PDF 1.4 exported from Scribus-1.3cvs (today's build) (this file renders OK with Acrobat Reader 7.0 on Linux)
Created attachment 11824 [details] PDF 1.5 exported from Scribus-1.3cvs (today's build) (this file renders OK with Acrobat Reader 7.0 on Linux)
Seems a duplicate of 97256. (Of course transparency is not supported by kpdf 0.4). Albert: what do you think?
This is an issue which the core xpdf rendering code cannot handle from my testing. e.g. True PDF 1.4 transparency effects are not supported.
Yeah, xpdf 3.00 does not support transparency, next version is said to support it, but i'm not sure if Derek is ever going to release a new GPL version of his code. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 97256 ***