http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa056/tests/OOo_hatch.pdf shows a simple rectangle with hatched shading created by exporting http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa056/tests/OOo_hatch.sxd with OpenOffice.org1.1beta2. The pdf file can be displayed in Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.06, but does not display correctly in older versions of Adobe Acrobat Reader or in xpdf-2.02. Ghostscript gave the following error: $ gsx-8.10 OO0_hatch.pdf AFPL Ghostscript BETA RELEASE 8.10 (2003-05-21) Copyright (C) 2003 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Processing pages 1 through 1. Page 1 Error: /VMerror in --eofill-- VM status: 2 255422 1557152 Current allocation mode is local AFPL Ghostscript BETA RELEASE 8.10: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 I get the same error with older versions of gs on both linux and SGI Irix.
Created attachment 730 [details] OOo_hatch.pdf
Created attachment 731 [details] OOo_hatch.sxd
OOo 1.1.1 seems to be fine. The file was incorrect. But OOo 1.1.1 makes a fine pdf from the sxw.