The attached file was displayed with gs -sDEVICE=x11 mask-alpha-pdf-argb32-out.pdf. The file does not display correctly in Ghostscript 8.60. The file draws a triangle and rectangle in a transparency group with an Alpha type SMask consisting of a circle with the RGBA (0.4, 0.4, 0.4, 0.8) and the background with RGBA (0.8, 0.8, 0.8, 0.4). Adobe Reader 8.1.0 on Windows XP displays the file correctly with area inside the circle drawn with alpha=0.8 mask and the area outside the circle drawn with alpha = 0.4 mask. Using Ghostscript 8.60 the area inside the circle is drawn with what appears to be the alpha=0.4 mask and the area outside the circle drawn with alpha=0.8. It looks like Ghostscript is creating the mask from the colors instead of the alpha. Adobe Reader 7 for Linux also displays the file incorrectly.
Created attachment 3354 [details] mask-alpha-pdf-argb32-out.pdf
Problem in transparency somewhat related to 689438
Reassigning to new owner
This was fixed when we fixed alpha blending for the pdf 1.7 fts test files.