[XeTeX] [Pgf-users] TiKZ, XeTeX, semitransparent - Acrobat draws then erases

[Till Tantau]

Hello everyone,


these problems should now be fixed in the CVS.


Best regards,
Till


Am 09.05.2008 um 20:25 schrieb Matthew Leingang:

> Hi folks,
>
> I had a problem with a beamer presentation typeset with xelatex and
> viewed with the Acrobat Reader.  On one of the slides, paging to it
> would flash the correct slide, then suddenly half of the slide would
> disappear.  I would get a dialog saying there's an error in the PDF,
> then another dialog giving an error code of 14.
>
> I worked it down considerably to the following minimal example:
>
> %%!TEX TS-program = xelatex
> \documentclass{article}
> \usepackage{tikz}
> \begin{document}
> Is there a picture here?
> \begin{tikzpicture}
> \draw[semitransparent] (0,0) -- (1,0) node[opaque] {$z$};
> \end{tikzpicture}
> \end{document}
>
> Typeset with pdflatex, everything's fine.  Typeset with xelatex, it
> looks fine in TeXShop's PDF viewer and Mac OS X's Preview
> application.  In Acrobat Reader, however, the page draws then
> disappears right away. This is on Acrobat Reader 8.1.2, but I've
> viewed the same PDF on Acrobat Reader on another mac, and also on a
> PC and gotten the same problem.
>
> If I remove the "semitransparent" option then the Acrobat problem
> goes away.
>
> I can definitely get along without the option in my slideshow but I
> have no idea what caused the problem. Thanks in advance for any ideas.
>
> --Matt
>
> --
> Matthew Leingang
> Preceptor in Mathematics
> Harvard University
>
> http://www.math.harvard.edu/~leingang/vCard.vcf
>
>
>
>
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