On 2/7/20 10:37 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
Peter is stepwise looking into all these issues but we decided to also see how that checking and standards evolve in cases where it's a confusing mess. And these 'appearance dicts' are an example of a mess. On the one hand there's predefined appearances and on the other hand enforced renderings which gives some chicken-egg issue. It smells a lot like bugs became features (standards) or 'acrobat behaviour' made the standard or ... (like the zero rect thing, which, given t e plenty of flags there are and verbosity there is in pdfm is pretty weird and actually can make viewers bark. Irr the current approach we follow is kind of a compromise.
Just a comment on one of the issues. Maybe the simplest way to avoid the issues with the annotation flag is not including it at all. Once annotations have appearance dictionaries, Acrobat will print those ones with an annotation flag set to print. Pablo -- http://www.ousia.tk