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Ugly colors in PDF output

Sam Karli
Enthusiast
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



GDL/Python/C++ dev
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Barry Kelly
Moderator
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.
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Sam Karli
Enthusiast
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.
GDL/Python/C++ dev
Barry Kelly
Moderator
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.
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