[pdftex] background image gets lost

Radhakrishnan C V cvr at river-valley.com
Thu Jan 25 14:00:20 CET 2001


On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Jaime E . Villate wrote:

: On Thu, Jan 25, 2001 at 08:22:27AM +1100, Ross Moore wrote:
: > Compare these two PDF documents:
: > 
: >   http://www.cds.caltech.edu/~ross/marslide/iciam/example.pdf
: >   http://www.iciam.org/abstracts/cgi-bin/data/16528/body.pdf
: > 
: > Apart from minor differences in the \title, \author
: > these are meant to be the same.
:
: I see them both perfectly and identical, using Acrobat Reader 4.05
: under Linux. You might have a buggy pdf reader.

No, they are not identical at all. Do you see the background graphic
in the second example, that was the problem Ross was pointing to. 

It is because texpower adds a pagecolor which masks the graphic since
everyshi keeps the background and the page in question as two layers.

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Radhakrishnan
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