Created attachment 13286 [details] Original pdf Ghostscript renders a transparent box lighter than the original. I converted the original pdf using Ghostscript 9.20 with: gswin64c -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=ghostscript.pdf original.pdf
Created attachment 13287 [details] Ghostscript 9.20
The original file is somewhat complicated with extraneous elements which are going to have to be removed before I can get a clearer picture of what is going on here. This will take some time and I'm busy with other work right at the moment, I'll get to this when I can.
Fixed in commit 3b6625b9f04daedf678a137475858ad35b991052