In message <[email protected]> Martin Wuerthner <[email protected]> wrote:
>In message <[email protected]> > Kevin Wells <[email protected]> wrote: > >> In message <[email protected]> >> Chris Gransden <[email protected]> wrote: > >>>I finally got around to finishing adding the rest of the Xpdf 3.02 source >>>to !PDF. You can download a test !RunImage here, >>>http://www.cgransden.co.uk/ PDFtest.zip >>>Hopefully I haven't broken anything. > >> It appears to run OK here, but I found one pdf that it just displays >> boxes: > >> <http://www.parliament.uk/documents/foi/Catering-6th-Floor-Cafe-7-Mill >> bank-F11-009-2011.01.10.pdf> > >Yes, that is to be expected. The "text" on it is all represented as >soft (alpha) masked bitmaps, though only two values are used in the >mask: fully on and fully off, so a normal binary mask would have been >sufficient. !PDF ignores soft masks, so you just see the actual >bitmap, which is a box of solid colour. OK thanks for the very good explanation. > >The same happens in ArtWorks, the main difference being that with >warnings enabled ArtWorks tells you that the soft masks of lots of >bitmaps were ignored. So it is the UK Parliament producing a poor PDF file then. > >Martin -- Kev Wells http://riscos.kevsoft.co.uk/ http://kevsoft.co.uk/ http://kevsoft.co.uk/AleQuest/ ICQ 238580561 And was Jerusalem builded here _______________________________________________ GCCSDK mailing list [email protected] Bugzilla: http://www.riscos.info/bugzilla/index.cgi List Info: http://www.riscos.info/mailman/listinfo/gcc Main Page: http://www.riscos.info/index.php/GCCSDK
