Bug 164965 - PDF Export of Writer and Draw documents containing monochrome bitmaps produce black images
Summary: PDF Export of Writer and Draw documents containing monochrome bitmaps produce...
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Alias: None
Product: LibreOffice
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Writer (show other bugs)
Version:
(earliest affected)
24.8.3.2 release
Hardware: x86 (IA32) Windows (All)
: medium normal
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Blocks: PDF-Export
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Reported: 2025-01-31 05:24 UTC by Chris Forbes
Modified: 2025-03-21 18:30 UTC (History)
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Zipfile containing mono bitmap, Writer doc, Draw doc and PDFs (319.29 KB, application/x-zip-compressed)
2025-01-31 05:39 UTC, Chris Forbes
Details
Example files to illustrate how colour depth of bitmaps alters PDF output (1.05 MB, application/x-zip-compressed)
2025-02-03 00:46 UTC, Chris Forbes
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Description Chris Forbes 2025-01-31 05:24:50 UTC
Description:
Writer and Draw documents containing monochrome bitmaps (1bpp) work fine in OpenDoc formats, but when exported to PDF the resulting bitmaps are totally black

Steps to Reproduce:
1.Open new Writer or Draw document
2.Insert monochrome bitmap
3.Export to PDF using default settings
4. View resultant PDF file using Adobe Acrobat. Voila!

Actual Results:
The PDFs have black areas corresponding to the bitmaps

Expected Results:
The monochrome bitmaps should have been reproduced in the exported PDF files


Reproducible: Always


User Profile Reset: No

Additional Info:
I am not sure when this bug appeared; I used to produce PDF files this way quite a bit, but somewhere in the last couple of years the problem occurred, and I started using Acrobat directly instead.
I will supply example files illustrating the problem once the bug is accepted.
Comment 1 BogdanB 2025-01-31 05:32:33 UTC
Hi, Chris, can you upload (see Add an attachment button) a simple file with a simple monochrome bitmap, in order to test this bug?
Comment 2 Chris Forbes 2025-01-31 05:39:54 UTC
Created attachment 198898 [details]
Zipfile containing mono bitmap, Writer doc, Draw doc and PDFs
Comment 3 BogdanB 2025-01-31 05:44:35 UTC
I exported your Example.odg and Example.odt to PDF on Linux, and they are like before printing. I will test latter on Windows.

Version: 25.2.0.3 (X86_64) / LibreOffice Community
Build ID: e1cf4a87eb02d755bce1a01209907ea5ddc8f069
CPU threads: 16; OS: Linux 6.8; UI render: default; VCL: gtk3
Locale: ro-RO (ro_RO.UTF-8); UI: en-US
Calc: threaded
Comment 4 Chris Forbes 2025-02-03 00:38:19 UTC
Dear BogdanB (and others)
I have been doing some further testing. I have taken the mono bitmap I used last time, and saved it with a range of different colour depths. I have created a new example Writer file, with five versions of the bitmap on the one page, and then exported to PDF. Only the monochrome image comes out black in the resultant PDF: al the others are fine. The problem only occurs with true monochrome bitmaps. I can send you the files so you can duplicate what I've done.
Cheers,
Chris Forbes
Comment 5 Chris Forbes 2025-02-03 00:46:11 UTC
Created attachment 198931 [details]
Example files to illustrate how colour depth of bitmaps alters PDF output

This zip has a Writer document containing 5 (otherwise identical) embedded bmp files (but of different colour depths), the bitmap files themselves, and the PDF output. Note that only the mono bitmap exports as black: all the others export fine!
Comment 6 meagan.eggert 2025-03-21 18:30:27 UTC
Version 25.2.1.2
Build ID: d3abf4aee5fd705e4a92bba33a32f40bc4e56f49
CPU threads: 8; OS: Windows 11 x86_64
UI render: Skia/Raster; VCL: win
Locale: en-US; UI: en-US
Calc: threaded

Unable to reproduce bug, when attempting to save a Writer document with the attached bitmap, the exported PDF looks as expected.