Bug 690616

Summary: PDF-generation produces black rectangles
Product: Ghostscript Reporter: artifex
Component: PDF WriterAssignee: Ken Sharp <ken.sharp>
Status: NOTIFIED WORKSFORME    
Severity: normal    
Priority: P2    
Version: 8.64   
Hardware: PC   
OS: Windows XP   
Customer: 870 Word Size: ---

Description artifex 2009-07-10 00:50:59 UTC 
If you are viewing the file seite7.pdf, you can see text sections which are
preceeded with a bullet. If this file is converted to PDF ( gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite
-o out.pdf -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH seite7.pdf ) , the bullets are shown as black
rectangles.
The conversion to other formats like TIFFG4 or Postscript works fine!
Comment 1 artifex 2009-07-10 00:51:36 UTC 
Created attachment 5202 [details]
seite7.pdf
Comment 2 Ken Sharp 2009-07-10 01:24:52 UTC 
The 'bullets' are in fact rectangular black images drawn with a soft mask (!) to
produce the curves.

I see that gs 8.64 does indeed produce (large) solid black rectangles instead of
small circular black bullets.

Using current code results in correct output for me, it looks like this has been
fixed as a result of the extensive work on soft masks.
Comment 3 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2009-07-10 12:15:45 UTC 
Unfortunately the soft-mask changes are extensive and generating patches for previous releases of 
Ghostscript for these changes is not possible.  We'll be releasing a new version in August that will 
incorporate these changes.
Comment 4 Marcos H. Woehrmann 2011-09-18 21:46:33 UTC 
Changing customer bugs that have been resolved more than a year ago to closed.