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Tilman Hausherr commented on PDFBOX-2681:
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I'd like to find out whether the image that is rendered by PDFBox is identical 
to the one rendered by Adobe. I'm not good to detect subtle color differences. 
Just assume that I am color-blind. (I'm not :-) ). This is to find out whether 
my theory is correct that this isn't a shading problem, but a transparency 
problem. If it is a shading problem, then it means that the effect would be 
seen with the file I attached. I also attached the PS file so that Jon can make 
modifications easily.

> Colors inaccurate rastered CMYK source w/ gradient + photo
> ----------------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-2681
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2681
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>          Components: Rendering
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.0
>         Environment: Tested on OS X 10.10, Java 1.6 / 1.8
>            Reporter: Jon Wu
>         Attachments: Shading2Function2CMYK.pdf, Shading2Function2CMYK.ps, 
> acrobat-vs-pdfbox-swop.png, gradient-test-illustrator.jpg, 
> gradient-test-pdfbox.jpg, gradient-test-photo-illustrator.jpg, 
> gradient-test-photo-pdfbox-us-web-coated-swop-v2.jpg, 
> gradient-test-photo-pdfbox.jpg, gradient-test-photo-rgb-illustrator.jpg, 
> gradient-test-photo-rgb-pdfbox.jpg, gradient-test-photo-rgb.pdf, 
> gradient-test-photo.pdf, gradient-test.pdf, purple-gradient-comparison.jpg
>
>
> In the attached gradient-test-photo.pdf, there's a photo with a gradient on 
> top of it. The colors in the gradient are CMYK. When rasterizing this test 
> file with PDFBox 2.0.0 SNAPSHOT 20150209, the resulting image's gradient is 
> different from the original and the colors of the photo under the gradient 
> look significantly different vs the display in Adobe tools like Illustrator 
> or other compliant PDF readers.
> Issues:
> - Color hue is wrong. Is this a CMYK to RGB issue?
> - Opacity of gradient is wrong and much different. The jpg from Illustrator 
> shows much more of the photo without a gradient over it.
> Without a photo, there's still a difference, but it's much harder to see. 
> Example in gradient-test.pdf where the same gradient is drawn over a grey 
> rectangle.
> If I convert the PDF to RGB in Illustrator first and rasterize the RGB PDF 
> with PDFBox, the result is nearly identical between Illustrator and PDFBox so 
> this seems like a CMYK conversion issue in both the general color conversion 
> and maybe how the gradient is calculated.



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