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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-1094: ----------------------------------------- A matrix of {code} [ 0 1 tx ] [ -1 0 ty ] {code} is not really a matrix with a scale factor of 0, nor is it an "invalid matrix", it is a valid matrix with a rotation of 270°. A rotation is expressed as {code} [ cos(rot) -sin(rot) 0] [ sin(rot) cos(rot) 0] {code} See also http://people.cs.clemson.edu/~dhouse/courses/401/notes/affines-matrices.pdf page 5. The scaling of this matrix is 1, i.e. shapes don't get bigger or smaller. So if somebody extracts the "scale" elements and uses them as a factor, it will go wrong (that's what happened in PDFBOX-1931). I also doubt that the code from [ https://svn.apache.org/r1643042 ] in PDTilingPattern.getMatrix() is correct, as your assumptions ("invalid matrices", "scaling factor of zero") are incorrect and you admit yourself in a comment that the code is "pure guesswork". (To be fair, I made the same wrong assumptions in PDFBOX-1931, but I kept the code that worked). You can find this 270° rotation matrix pattern R10 in gs-bugzilla6917151.pdf. The pattern stream is two horizontal red lines. Because of the matrix above, the lines are vertical in Adobe Reader. > Pattern colorspace support > -------------------------- > > Key: PDFBOX-1094 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1094 > Project: PDFBox > Issue Type: Improvement > Components: Rendering > Affects Versions: 1.6.0, 2.0.0 > Reporter: Andreas Lehmkühler > Priority: Blocker > Fix For: 2.0.0 > > Attachments: ColoredTilingPaint.patch, PATTYP1.pdf, PATTYP2.pdf, > PDF32000_2008_pg737.pdf, PDFBOX-1094-065514-XStep32767.pdf, > PDFBOX-1094-094730.pdf, PDFBOX-1094-096213-p18.pdf, > PDFBOX-1094-118358-Step-32767.pdf, PDFBOX-1094-PDFBOX-269.pdf, > PDFBOX-1094-tiling_pattern.pdf-1-broken-tiles-with-ceil.png, > PDFBOX-1861-tracemonkey13.png, PDFStreamEngine.patch, PageDrawer.patch, > _pdfbox-1094-tiling_pattern.pdf-1-blurry.png, bugzilla8677511.jpg, > gs-bugzilla688728.pdf, gs-bugzilla691715.pdf, gs-bugzilla692152.pdf, > gs-bugzilla692503.ai, gs-bugzilla693653.pdf, gs-bugzilla694385.pdf, > jagpdf_doc_patterns.pdf, jagpdf_doc_patterns.pdf-1.png, > pdfbox-1094-pdf32000_2008_pg737.pdf-1.png, > pdfbox-1094-pdf32000_2008_pg737.pdf-1.png, pdfbox-1094-pdfbox-269.pdf-2.png, > pdfbox-1094-tiling_pattern.pdf-1.png, pdfbox-1094-tiling_pattern.pdf-1.png, > pdfbox-1094-tiling_pattern.pdf-1.png, pdfbox-1861-tracemonkey.pdf-13.png, > pdfbox-1861-tracemonkey.pdf-13.png, tiling_pattern.pdf, > v2_tiling_patterns_v2.patch > > > PDFBox doesn't support PDPattern colorspaces -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.3.4#6332)