Fixed transparency when saving P mode images to PDF #7323
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Resolves #7312
The (last unresolved) image from the issue is
which saved as a PDF with main becomes
gives
This is not a single transparency index, but different levels of opacity for different palette entries.
To attach this to a P mode PDF image, this PR writes a secondary image, the image converted to just an alpha channel, as an "SMask".
https://opensource.adobe.com/dc-acrobat-sdk-docs/pdfstandards/PDF32000_2008.pdf describes "SMask" under 8.9.5 'Image Dictionaries' as
With that, the PDF becomes
which can be converted back to a transparent PNG using ImageMagick's
convert
.