Pink fills are incorrectly masked in pdfwrite output.
Created attachment 1712 [details] pink-fill.eps
To avoid delays until next week I am assigning to Igor now so he can get started.
Ray, I guess you meant "assigning to Leonardo".
The problem is caused by a Type3 character cut-off with the character bbox and relates to the patch http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2005- July/005625.html . Likely now we've got a case, which contradicts our old practice, which the patch works for.
Created attachment 1715 [details] simplified.ps A simplified test file.
Patch to HEAD : http://ghostscript.com/pipermail/gs-cvs/2005-October/005764.html