Version: (using KDE KDE 3.2.0) Installed from: Debian stable Packages OS: Linux On some PDF files, some images are shown as plain black. The same images are rendered correctly by gv as well as by acroread (kpdf flips them). Examples are pages 1 and 3 of: http://diamond.boisestate.edu/gas/rose/score/rose1.pdf
Hmmm.... It works here.... What does plain "gs" do on your system?
Plain gs works fine. (gs version is: GNU Ghostscript 6.53 (2002-02-13))
I can confirm this problem. GS doesn't complain, and kpdf, gv, xpdf (though black boxes when printed) and acroread works fine. Another pdf document demonstrating the same problem: http://www.imec.be/essderc/papers-97/315.pdf
Actually all pdf viewers for Linux I have tried have this problem either on display (as in this case) or only when printing to file/printer. Therefore I suspect the problem to be in a common driver/library.
Created attachment 11088 [details] Example pdf document demonstrating the problem Attaching the document. The black boxes are reproduced by printing to file using kprinter and cups.
The same problem exists when displaying .ps files generated by other pdf viewers like kpdf that displays correctly. The same pdfs are displayed correctly in xpdf, kpdf and acrobat reader.
This problem seems to have the same cause as to my printing problem described in debian bug http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=309847. My printing problem and this problem disappears when I change from the gs-esp (GPL ghostscript++) to the gs-afpl (non-free ghostscript from http://www.ghostscript.com/) package. Then it actually is not a kghostscript bug.
Works just fine in Okular.