Dear all,

I've created this.
http://www.cirma.unito.it/research/alternando/photoBook.pdf

(it's 5 mB)

The cover and the separators in the pages are generated stretching on  
layers the same image (a pdf generated by Metapost)

% cover
\setlayer	[mybg]	
		[x=0\paperwidth, y=0\paperheight]
		{\color[lightgray]\externalfigure[alternando]
		[height=1\paperheight,width=1\paperwidth]}
% red horizontal separator
\setlayer	[mybg2]	
		[x=0\paperwidth, y=.45\paperheight]
		{\color[darkred]\externalfigure[alternando]
		[height=.1\paperheight,width=\paperwidth]}
% gray vertical separator
\setlayer	[mybg3]	
		[x=.9\paperwidth, y=0\paperheight]
		{\color[lightgray]\externalfigure[alternando]
		[height=\paperheight,width=.05\paperwidth]}


In Preview.app on macosx it's all displayed as expected
(this is a png snapshot of the horizontal separator:
http://www.cirma.unito.it/research/alternando/hbar.png
  ).
  But Acrobat displays the separators (the cover is ok) as a sequence  
of filled boxes. Can it depends on some resolutions setting? Or what?

-a-

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Andrea Valle
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CIRMA - DAMS
Università degli Studi di Torino
--> http://www.cirma.unito.it/andrea/
--> andrea.valle@unito.it
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I did this interview where I just mentioned that I read Foucault. Who  
doesn't in university, right? I was in this strip club giving this  
guy a lap dance and all he wanted to do was to discuss Foucault with  
me. Well, I can stand naked and do my little dance, or I can discuss  
Foucault, but not at the same time; too much information.
(Annabel Chong)