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### Emulating transparency to avoid discrepancies among pdf viewers/printers - TikZ

I previously asked this question about why my transparent fades weren't showing up or printing and it seems that the transparency feature in pdfs isn't uniformly supported. So my new question is this:...
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### Transparency and PDF: Wrong Colors (Bug / Feature Request) [closed]

There are some questions regarding rendering problems (color shifts) in Adobe Acrobat Reader when using transparency in tikz and friends or transparent PNGs. The solutions (that work for me so far) ...
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### Baffling interaction of Asymptote and Transparency

Context: I'm trying to use Asymptote to draw explanatory arrows and comments atop a semitransparent lstlisting environment. In the course of doing so I've encountered a bizarre interaction between ...
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### PDF looks ugly in Okular/Acrobat Reader and fine in Evince

(I don't know whether this question is on-topic, but I will ask it anyway.) I'using XeLaTeX and Beamer to prepare a presentation. The problem is that although the resultant pdf renders fine in Evince ...
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### TikZ: transparency causes problems with the color black (opacity, transparency, color model, Adobe Reader)

I want to have a fill color with transparency but I also want the text to be perfectly opaque. But somehow it does not work. \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz} \usetikzlibrary{shapes,} \begin{...
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### Asymptote: Transparency causes strange color rendering in Adobe Acrobat

I noticed that using transparency in a picture that's compiled as vector graphic output (render=0, no PRC) leads to strange colors (they look paler and desaturated) when the resulting picture is ...
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### PDFLaTeX Color Space

Background Am using TeX Live 2012, pdflatex, and latexmk to produce the document, on Ubuntu Linux. Problem In the following image, Okular is shown on the left and Adobe Acrobat Reader is shown on ...
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### Using ps2pdf colour and fonts change when TikZ picture added on beamer slide

When compiled with LaTeX + dvi2ps + ps2pdf the pdf output of the below MWE shows a strange behaviour: On the first slide (without TikZ picture) fonts and colours are slightly different from the ones ...
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### Opaque-to-transparent gradient lost in embedded PDF figure

I have a figure created with Inkscape as SVG and exported as PDF. When I view the PDF directly (e.g. in OS X Preview), it shows correctly. When embedding it in a LaTeX document, it has problems with ...
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### Text appearing bold on some pages with images [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Why are some pages in my PDF coming out bold? For some reason, all the text on certain pages is appearing bold when there is a picture on the same page. I saw the other ...
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### Using opacity in TikZ makes the entire page become “more coarse” when printed

In my document, some of the figures uses opacity. In the PDF viewer, everything looks fine, but when I print the document, the pages in which these figures appear become more "coarse"; the text looks ...
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### How do I prevent \includegraphics from rendering in bold in Acrobat? [closed]

I believe I'm seeing the same problem mentioned here, but just to summarize: When I use \includegraphics for a PDF, any other text on that page is rendered in bold in Acrobat 9 if 2D hardware ...
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### Inkscape → PDF → includegraphics → XeLaTeX → changed colors

I have an SVG file, which I have made/edited with Inkscape. I want to include this image in my thesis. The svg file is here: http://brussense.be/temp/theSVG.svg (because Inkscape uses a non-standard ...