GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 723261
Transparency doesn't display correctly in PDF from adobe illustrator
Last modified: 2014-01-30 00:48:34 UTC
Created attachment 267596 [details] Transparency in this file incorrectly renders as opaque in evince 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.
Hi Chris, Thanks for the bug report. It seems you have attached only one document (transparency_fromai.pdf) of the two mentioned in your comment.
Created attachment 267597 [details] Transparency in this file renders correctly in evince I created this pdf file (in matplotlib) to contain transparency. It renders correctly in evince.
Thanks for taking the time to report this bug. This seems to be a bug in poppler (the library used by evince to render PDF documents). Your report was forwarded to: https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=74202