[WONTFIX] Wrong colours in Adobe Reader (acroread)

When viewing this file in Adobe Reader 9.5.5, the colours look utterly wrong, they are way too dark and distorted. At first I thought it was an issue with the CMYK colours in the original picture, but when I converted the picture to RGB colour space (embedded in the example file), the issue persists. It doesn't appear in Poppler-based pdf viewers like Evince, nor in pdf.js, the default pdf viewer in Firefox. I also had a look in Adobe Reader XI on Windows XP (in a VirtualBox) and the colours appeared correctly to me.
$ pdfimages -list acroreadtest.pdf
page num type width height color comp bpc enc interp object ID x-ppi y-ppi size ratio
1 0 image 934 560 gray 1 8 jpeg no 8 0 200 200 15.0K 2.9%
1 1 image 708 401 rgb 3 8 jpeg no 17 0 163 163 101K 12%
I already read about ICC Profiles in the Wiki, but can't imagine that only a single application gets the colours so wrong. What's the issue here? I can only find very old posts about Acrobat Reader 7 outputting wrong colours (where it is suggested to use Acrobat Reader 5).
Last edited by Marcel- (2015-02-21 19:15:06)

Indeed, for me too, the colors are wrong wity Acrobat reader but correct with xpdf or ghotscript (used with ghostview). Acrobat reader is more or less a standalone application (it depends on core GNU/Linux libraries but not on external ICC profiles or fonts). So I simply assume that it is a bug in acroread. As the application is proprietary, it is not the resort of Archlinux. But do you really need acroread? Opensource PDF viewers works fine and open your file correctly.

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