759468 - PDF viewer doesn't handle some gradients, transparency, background images, and possibly colour profiles

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(Firefox :: PDF Viewer, defect)

Description

[dbronaugh]

Attachment: villages_menu.pdf

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/15.0 Firefox/15.0a1
Build ID: 20120526030519

Steps to reproduce:

Viewed PDF in Firefox (nightly, 2012-05-26) using the builtin pdf.js viewer. Awesome!


Actual results:

Rendering looked strange; partially transparent blocks around elements that should be transparent, etc; checked against Evince, many things are missing.


Expected results:

Viewing of PDF with all features used here supported.

Comment 1

[dbronaugh]

Attachment: As viewed with evince

Comment 2

[dbronaugh]

Attachment: As viewed with FF nightly

Comment 3

[Alfredos-Panagiotis Damkalis [:fredy]]

I confirm the bug at aurora (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120621 Firefox/15.0a2) and at the latest nightly (Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/16.0 Firefox/16.0a1)

Note: the message "This PDF document might not be displayed correctly" shows up at the reported pdf

Comment 4

[god_or_maman]

Pdf exported from Indesign CS6 using Interactive settings looks absolutely terrible in this new firefox pdf viewer... colors are off-over saturated. Any effects (outer glows, drop-shadows become white background) Etc.

Awful and totally useless.

Comment 5

[Yuan CHAO]

Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0

Background color under transparent object does not render, result in an unreadable title text.
(in white)

https://www.dropbox.com/s/zt8k7lp7z8k6n3m/I18n%20L10n%20for%20PES.pdf?m
(to be attached)

Comment 6

[Yuan CHAO]

Attachment: I18n L10n for PES.pdf

Comment 7

[Yuan CHAO]

Comment on attachment 722676 [details]
I18n L10n for PES.pdf

White title text in the slides cannot be seen due to background color under transparent object missing.

Comment 8

[Patrick Thompson]

Attachment: Another testcase exhibiting transparency problems

Another testcase exhibiting transparency problems, originating URL:
http://yummyyummycuisine.com/pfd/dinner.pdf

Comment 9

[peterl]

Similar issues occuring with most of our online pdf content. We post our product literature for use by our customers on our website. Many of these documents have graphics as backgrounds, much like watermarks. PDF.JS is not rendering documents correctly, as it is not honoring transparency levels for these images and is instead rendering the images as completely opaque, thus obscuring text content and making the PDF largely useless. An example is at http://www.incord.com/pdf/Inflatables.pdf. Here there is an image used as a background for product text, but PDF.JS renders the image completely opaque so as to obscure the text. There are other pdfs linked at our site (http://www.incord.com/catalogs/index.htm) that suffer similar issues, with transparency levels being completely ignored in rendering. PDFs render correctly when viewed with Acrobat reader or accessed with other browsers. This is a significant issue for us and needs to be corrected in Firefox. I'm sure others are suffering the same ill effects of this integrated viewer and are likely loosing prospective business. As a longtime Firefox promoter I hope these issues can be resolved SOON.

Comment 10

[peterl]

Attachment: inflatables.pdf file as rendered by PDF.JS

Screenshot of file from our website (Inflatables.pdf) as rendered by PDF.JS

Comment 11

[peterl]

Attachment: Inflatables.pdf as rendered by Acrobat Reader

Screenshot of file from our website (Inflatables.pdf) as rendered by PDF.JS

Comment 12

[Brendan Dahl [:bdahl]]

@[e-mail] That pdf should look much better in the nightly version of firefox.  Still some slight issues because of the soft mask though.

Comment 13

[Petruta Horea [:phorea], Desktop QA]

Verified as fixed on Firefox 29 beta 1 (20140318013849) under Win 7 64-bit, Ubuntu 32-bit and Mac OS X 10.8.5.
All the attachments are now displayed correctly (except for one that still has problems under Ubuntu, I'll file a new separate bug).