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(Get the code!)
It seems the problem really resides in Poppler - the free library used by Evince and many others to read PDFs. Specifically, it appears to be in the Cairo backend of Poppler, as people seem to be reporting other backends render the PDFs correctly.
Links to the main bug reports citing gradient issues (filed under Poppler, which is overseen by FreeDesktop.org):
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KPDF and XPDF suffer from the same problems as Evince - presumably using the same poppler libraries with Cairo. Interestingly, gv entirely failed to load my test PDF documents.
So I don't know if a problem also exists within OO - I haven't done the final test of using some pieces of rubbish such as Microshi* Office/Adobe Acrobat to create some PDFs with gradients and test loading them with the poppler libraries.