topic Re: Ugly colors in PDF output in Documentation

Ugly colors in PDF output

Sam Karli — Fri, 19 May 2023 20:14:30 GMT

Hi,
after exporting to PDF, a hevy-textured design's texture colors got wrong, the vivid yellow/green got much more greyish.
When I played around it, I realized that when I export only the object's layer, the PDF colors are OK, and when I switch other layers on, the colors go wrong.

Interestingly, when I edited the test PDFs in GIMP, the colors were good, again, so the problem can originate from the Adobe PDF Viewer (?!).

Here are the two colored images, the good, and the bad and ugly

Re: Ugly colors in PDF output

Barry Kelly — Thu, 15 Nov 2012 02:17:48 GMT

Looks to me as if you have a gradient fill sitting in front of the JPEG.
Delete it, turn the layer off or send it to the background.
Otherwise I am not sure what your problem is.
Barry.

Re: Ugly colors in PDF output

Sam Karli — Sun, 18 Nov 2012 13:04:18 GMT

Barry wrote:
Looks to me as if you have a gradient fill sitting in front of the JPEG.
Barry.

Mee too, but it's only that tree symbol that is turned on.

Re: Ugly colors in PDF output

Barry Kelly — Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:18:43 GMT

Does the tree object have fill parameters that you can control?
If so set it to an empty fill with a transparent (pen 0) background.

It looks to me as if the tree has a percentage (semi-transparent) fill to it.

Barry.