libreOffice: PDF/A fobids transparency

[Roland Hughes]

Mint17 kde 64-bit ALL updates applied as of this morning.

Open new blank text document. Click on Format->Page->Page

Change page from Letter to 7 x 9 apply

Click File->Export as PDF

TAKE ALL DEFAULTS

Will create a PDF file which has actual content, but throws up error dialog stating:

PDF/A forbids transparency. A transparent object was painted opaque instead.

The error occurs 100% of the time.

This also causes various printer drivers to crash/gag on documents thanks to Apple's worthless decision to use PDF instead of the incredibly stable Postscript standard.

Please do NOT kick this over to Ubuntu again as they claim the problem isn't theirs.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/libreoffice/+bug/1439736

[Roadowl (roadowl)]

Confirmed.
Real bug.

Version: 4.4.3.2
Build ID: 40m0(Build:2)
Locale: en_US

[Brian Carlson (abutilize)]

Could this be caused by the following in the styles.xml:

  <style:style style:name="Standard" style:family="paragraph" style:class="text" style:master-page-name="">
   <style:paragraph-properties style:page-number="auto" fo:background-color="transparent" style:shadow="none" style:writing-mode="lr-tb">
    <style:tab-stops/>
    <style:background-image/>
   </style:paragraph-properties>
  </style:style>