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  1. Bug #164233
  2. Comment #16

Comment 16 for bug 164233

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Joe Harrington (joeharr) wrote : Re: [Upstream] [hardy] Opening pdf with smooth gradient in Evince displays striped

I don't have time to chase it down at the moment but maybe you do, Chris. I recall reading some time ago that the problem is in the poppler PDF-writing library, which uses a broken algorithm to make the gradient out of a set of constant-color stripes whose edges are being rendered as white lines by some readers and not by others. Other PDF-writing programs that do not use poppler (from Win or Mac worlds) produce them differently. So the problem is in poppler, if I recall it all correctly.

--jh--