Gecko/20100424 SeaMonkey/2.1a1pre   
   From: Dave Yeo    
      
   tholen@antispam.ham wrote:   
   > Dave Yeo  writes:   
   >   
   >> The problem with the Matrox drivers is they only support 24 bit depth   
   >> whereas a lot of newer things use 32 bit depth. It is possible that   
   >> Lucide doesn't handle this. You could try it at 16 bit depth (64k colours).   
   >   
   > I was sent a concert program via email in PDF format, and the old   
   > Adobe Acrobat 3.0 couldn't handle it.  As I recall, the Innotek   
   > Acrobat 5.0 couldn't handle it either.  But Ghostscript could,   
   > though the colors were different from the printed program.   
   > Lucide, however, displayed the colors essentially indistinguishable   
   > from the printed program.  I got the impression that Lucide did it   
   > right, and that Ghostscript was wrong.  But I suppose it's possible   
   > that whoever made the printed program used a PDF viewer that couldn't   
   > handle the colors properly.  I'll have to try and find out from the   
   > person who designed the original cover art for the program and   
   > created the PDF file.  My guess is that it was all done on Windows   
   > using Word to create the document and Acrobat to create the PDF, using   
   > either Windows or a Mac, so the printed program probably has the right   
   > colors, in which case, kudos to Lucide.   
   >   
      
   No argument that Lucide (actually the poppler library) does a great job    
   of reading PDF files. The problem is that poppler along with most of the    
   other stuff coming out of freedesktop.org, outputs 32 bit graphics and    
   the Matrox driver only handles 24 bit input.   
   So Lucide needs a workaround for this or people are going to have to    
   sidegrade to Snap.   
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