Re: possible issue with ps2pdf (9.25) and transparency

Thanks VERY MUCH for the detailed information about the changes in
ghostscript 9.25 that broke the transparency feature.  I can confirm
that your proposed

	gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -o out.pdf test-transparency.ps

does indeed produce correct transparency in the out.pdf file.

Our ps2pdf command is the one installed from ghostpdl-9.25;
it invokes ps2pdf14 which in turn invokes ps2pdfwr, and
that calls gs with several options, including -dSAFER.

Thus, the command

	ps2pdf -dNOSAFER test-transparency.ps

produces correct transparency.

I'll pass on the explanation, and workaround, to the TeX Live list.

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- Nelson H. F. Beebe                    Tel: +1 801 581 5254                  -
- University of Utah                    FAX: +1 801 581 4148                  -
- Department of Mathematics, 110 LCB    Internet e-mail: [email protected]  -
- 155 S 1400 E RM 233                       [email protected]  [email protected] -
- Salt Lake City, UT 84112-0090, USA    URL: http://www.math.utah.edu/~beebe/ -
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