I'll chase that clipping path idea a little.  I've been working on what
caused the test to fail for Testformular1.pdf which is in our test area.
I'm starting to suspect the clipping path ... though I thought I was
rigorously testing on the image rendering side.

I'll pull flyer.pdf from that issue into the test arena too ...

Jeremias, if that doesn't get it, I'll find a way to get another test file
to you.  May not be able to post it to the group due to customer
restrictions ... but I'll see.

Thanks!

2009/5/1 Andreas Lehmkühler <[email protected]>

>
>
> Jeremias Maerki schrieb:
> > AFAIK, BDC/EMC (since PDF 1.2) are defined my the "Marked Content"
> > chapter in the spec and are used primarily for identifying certain marks
> > on a page. They are the basis for Tagged PDF. But they don't have an
> > influence on the rendering. I've worked on that in FOP recently so I
> > know a few things here.
> >
> > "Optional Content" has been introduced with PDF 1.5. It is used mainly
> > for group content together, ex. layers in Illustrator. I haven't looked
> > at OCG closely, yet, but they allow to show and hide certain marks
> > (content groups).
> >
> > Anyway, if your test files render badly, I don't think it has to do with
> > these features. If I understand this stuff correctly, the above is
> > mainly about switching on and off the rendering of certain marks. If you
> > like I can take a look at your test files that don't work properly and
> > try to have a look myself. Maybe I can give you a hint where to look.
> Perhaps it might be useful to have a look at the implementation of the
> clipping operators. Some rendering of pdfs is improved but some are
> getting worse, e.g. have a look at the flyer.pdf attached to PDFBOX-358.
> Without clipping is looks quite perfect, but after enabling it some of
> the content disappears or isn't rendered correct. Perhaps it is a
> problem with the direction of the path and the winding rule which
> describes in the end what area is painted or not??
>
>
> Andreas Lehmkühler
> > On 01.05.2009 00:55:15 Daniel Wilson wrote:
> >> Some of my stencil-masked documents are still rendering badly.
> >>
> >> The only operators they use that are not implemented are the BDC and EMC
> >> operators -- the marked-content sequence begin and end operators
> (section
> >> 10.5).  These are briefly discussed relative to XObjects as "Optional
> >> Content" in section 4.10.3.
> >>
> >> I'm sure these things have some significance, but are they significant
> to
> >> rendering a flat image -- PNG, JPG, etc. ?  Or should I be looking
> elsewhere
> >> for the outstanding problems?
> >>
> >> Thanks once again for your thoughts!
> >>
> >> Daniel Wilson
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Jeremias Maerki
> >
>

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