[cairo-bugs] [Bug 20734] New: Cairo generated PDFs get interpreted strangely

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http://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=20734

           Summary: Cairo generated PDFs get interpreted strangely
           Product: cairo
           Version: 1.8.6
          Platform: Other
        OS/Version: All
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: medium
         Component: pdf backend
        AssignedTo: ajohnson at redneon.com
        ReportedBy: simon at gimp.org
         QAContact: cairo-bugs at cairographics.org


Ok, this is most probably not a cairo bug, so feel free to close it if you're
not willing to dig into this issue. However, it is an interesting effect which
might - or might not - be an artefact specific to cairo.

I recently used vistaprint.de for ordering business cards for my brother and
while their online preview looked correct the final printed result was wrong -
the motive was cropped wrongly.

I had longer discussions with their hotline and the first one told me, that
their system could not handle "layered" PDFs correctly (which is odd, because I
did not use any layer features of inkscape). I tried various modifications of
the PDF with their hotline, but nothing helped. The original file was generated
with Cairo 1.6.4, but switching to 1.8.6 did not help, neither did help a thin
line around the document boundaries apparently.

I don't like to attach these files to this bug report, since they contain
personal information, however I'll put them online for a while so that anyone
interested could look into them.

The files are at http://www.home.unix-ag.org/simon/vistadebug/ - the one with
"Proof" imprinted on top obviously is their proof and the business cards
themselves show the same weird cropping on the top and the bottom boundary.

I wonder what information in the PDF gets interpreted as the bounding box for
the actual printing and what I'd have to do to work around this. For some
reason it worked correctly for the left and right boundary, otherwise I'd
suspect that the bounding box of the white graphics gets interpreted as a
bounding box for the whole file.

Can anyone with some insight in PDF shed some light on this issue?

Thanks!


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