[gs-devel] black areas on converted XPS documents

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:
> Some XPS documents converted into PDF or PS with GhostPDL's gxps[1] show 
> "black areas" on certain parts of documents.
> 
> 
> Interestingly:
> 
> - "gxps document.xps" shows black areas in the viewer
> 
> - converted XPS->PDF document does not show these areas in xpdf or KDE's 
> Okular. It does show these areas in Gnome's Evince or Adobe Acrobat Reader
> 
> - when opening the converted XPS->PDF document in Acrobat Reader, as 
> Acrobat renders the document (which takes ~2 seconds), it first shows 
> the page without any artefacts (black areas), but a second later they 
> show up as the document is fully loaded/rendered.
> 
> Is it a known issue?

I uploaded the documents with this issue to this location:

http://www1.wpkg.org/xps/

It contains two ~4 MB documents:
- 74584.xps - "original" document, doesn't show corruption
- 74584.pdf - converted PDF with "black areas"

The document was converted with these options:

gxps -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -sOutputFile=74584.pdf 74584.xps


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Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org