Arch Linux

Marcel-

Member

From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

[WONTFIX] Wrong colours in Adobe Reader (acroread)

When viewing this file in Adobe Reader 9.5.5, the colours look utterly wrong, they are way too dark and distorted. At first I thought it was an issue with the CMYK colours in the original picture, but when I converted the picture to RGB colour space (embedded in the example file), the issue persists. It doesn't appear in Poppler-based pdf viewers like Evince, nor in pdf.js, the default pdf viewer in Firefox. I also had a look in Adobe Reader XI on Windows XP (in a VirtualBox) and the colours appeared correctly to me.

$ pdfimages -list acroreadtest.pdf 
page   num  type   width height color comp bpc  enc interp  object ID x-ppi y-ppi size ratio
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
   1     0 image     934   560  gray    1   8  jpeg   no         8  0   200   200 15.0K 2.9%
   1     1 image     708   401  rgb     3   8  jpeg   no        17  0   163   163  101K  12%

I already read about ICC Profiles in the Wiki, but can't imagine that only a single application gets the colours so wrong. What's the issue here? I can only find very old posts about Acrobat Reader 7 outputting wrong colours (where it is suggested to use Acrobat Reader 5).

Last edited by Marcel- (2015-02-21 19:15:06)

olive

Member

From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-06-22

Posts: 1,490

Re: [WONTFIX] Wrong colours in Adobe Reader (acroread)

Indeed, for me too, the colors are wrong wity Acrobat reader but correct with xpdf or ghotscript (used with ghostview). Acrobat reader is more or less a standalone application (it depends on core GNU/Linux libraries but not on external ICC profiles or fonts). So I simply assume that it is a bug in acroread. As the application is proprietary, it is not the resort of Archlinux. But do you really need acroread? Opensource PDF viewers works fine and open your file correctly.

Wu

Member

Registered: 2009-12-27

Posts: 80

Re: [WONTFIX] Wrong colours in Adobe Reader (acroread)

That is a known issue of adobe reader 9.x that has been fixed only in the X series. This bug will probably never be fixed in the 9.x series, so you should switch to another reader or install a newer version of adobe reader via Wine.

Marcel-

Member

From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

Re: [WONTFIX] Wrong colours in Adobe Reader (acroread)

But do you really need acroread? Opensource PDF viewers works fine and open your file correctly.

I need to know how other people (especially those with Windows computers, that mostly use Adobe Reader) are viewing my document. But I'll look at the Windows XP output in a VirtualBox, instead.

Cooleech

Member

From: Split, Croatia

Registered: 2015-01-23

Posts: 24

Re: [WONTFIX] Wrong colours in Adobe Reader (acroread)

Doesn't all PDF look the same on EVERY OS? Isn't that a point in having such format?

Marcel-

Member

From: Utrecht, NL

Registered: 2006-12-03

Posts: 266

Re: [WONTFIX] Wrong colours in Adobe Reader (acroread)

Indeed. Except when you're looking at PDFs in a buggy PDF viewer, even if it is provided* by the inventors of the format.

(* Adobe Reader is no longer officially supported on Linux)