Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 120131
Export as PDF correctly layering outlines, incorrectly layering fill.
Last modified: 2013-03-21 19:32:13 UTC
Export as pdf default behaviour correctly layers object outline, but incorrectly layers their fills. Example - the heart icon on attached file. OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 OOO320m19 (Build:9505) ooo-build 3.2.1.4, Ubuntu package 1:3.2.1-7ubuntu1.1 and 3.3.0 (build 9567) on Windows7 (Why can't I cut and paste Help-about :( ) Submit form requires but does not allow me to select a version. Cheers DrC
Created attachment 78527 [details] tgz folder containing .odg and exported .pdf
I do not understand your problem. The pdf looks the same as the odg-document. Are you concerned, that the heart drawing on the first page has a black line? Then you need to set the line to "invisible".
The outline on the first page is there to show that the outline is correctly layered in both the .odg and the .pdf. The left hand ellipse is partially covered by the right hand one. The pdf incorrectly shows the solid fill of the left hand ellipse superimposed over the gradient shading of the right hand ellipse. The second page is irrelevant to the bug (sorry). It has yet to be edited to show the shading effect I am trying to achieve. You may need true colour to show the shading.
Created attachment 78543 [details] Screenshot: PDF viewer on the left, AOO Draw on the right I guess this screenshot shows the bug reported by the user. On the PDF, the fill color of the right ellipse does not look good.
Looking in more detail and playing with it a bit, the .pdf seems to have a transparency in the top layer that is not in the .odg.
Created attachment 78546 [details] screenshot showing spurious apparent transparency on .pdf If you edit the gradient on the .odg right hand ellipse to something totally different then export as .pdf the bug becomes more obvious.
I still cannot reproduce it, the left oval does not shimmer through. Are you sure you test it in AOO3.4?
No - tested on versions listed. Submission form would not let me select a version (reported on initial report) so maybe we have a bugzilla bug? I will download the later version when I can free up a machine for diagnostic work. Meanwhile it is a bug in (at least my) current versions.
Confirmed in AOO 3.4.1 on Windows 7. In DrC's attachment, look only at the first page, at the right lobe of the heart symbol. Look at the fill in the PDF. The error shows up more distinctly in Ariel's screenshot. It is showing some sort of Moiré pattern/anti-alising artifact. I'm adding Armin to the cc since this is his area of expertise.