Apache OpenOffice (AOO) Bugzilla – Issue 45715
Export of drawing to eps, wmf, emf looses transparency
Last modified: 2013-02-07 21:49:21 UTC
Hi, I'm using OpenOffice Beta 2.0 build 1.9.84 on Windows XP. If I create a drawing in Draw that uses filled areas what are transparent, when I export to an EPS file, the transparency of the filled area is lost. Whatever is behind the transparently filled object is completely hidden. I will attach a small draw file that has the problem (just export to EPS). Thanks, John
Created attachment 24132 [details] OpenOffice 2.0 Beta Draw File
Reproducible.
Reassigned to Sven.
EPS is not supporting transparent bitmaps. To keep the transparency in the created eps file it would be necessary to export everything in a single bitmap, but this is not easy for encapsulated postscript files, because eps normally does not have a fixed target resolution. Furthermore the filesize would grow up enormous if switching from a vector graphic to a bitmap graphic. sj->thb: do you have an idea ?
Retargeted, due to resource constraints.
*** Issue 54882 has been marked as a duplicate of this issue. ***
Extended title, to reflect findings from issue 54882.
If the figure is exported to PDF, converted to PS (using pdf2ps) and then converted to EPS (using ps2eps), the transparency is preserved.
@jmfv: sure, but it's a high-res bitmap, if you look closely. @sj: please take this one back.
Hello, I think the goal is not to keep the transparency in the exported eps, but to flatten the transparency, so that the eps looks like what was on the OO screen. Can this be done without bitmap ?