Re: font-syn.lua error

[Taco Hoekwater <taco@elvenkind.com>]

Hans Hagen wrote:
> luigi scarso wrote:
>> On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 12:09 PM, Alan BRASLAU <alan.braslau@cea.fr> 
>> wrote:
>>
>>> No transparancy, or perhaps total transparancy, my test cannot tell
>>> as I am using transparancy in metafun to produce a gradient
>>> from .5white to black.
>>>
>>> Printing the page under acroread then hangs.
>>>
>>> Alan
>>>
>>> P.S. looks OK under xpdf.
>>
>> mupdf shows it completely  different

I believe it is safe to say that that rendering is quite wrong. ;)

> my experience is that there are only a few viewers capable of dealing 
> with transparencies (wrong clipping, wrong colors, etc)

Same here. And actually, xpdf often does a better job than acroread
(I suspect that the implementation of the colormodel AR switches to in
that case is less-than-perfect)

Best wishes,
Taco
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