diff --git a/svx/source/sdr/contact/viewobjectcontactofmasterpagedescriptor.cxx b/svx/source/sdr/contact/viewobjectcontactofmasterpagedescriptor.cxx
index 2cd4b64c2fe8..c46c1e831c26 100644
--- a/svx/source/sdr/contact/viewobjectcontactofmasterpagedescriptor.cxx
+++ b/svx/source/sdr/contact/viewobjectcontactofmasterpagedescriptor.cxx
@@ -89,7 +89,11 @@ namespace sdr::contact
                 if (!bHideBackground && !GetObjectContact().isDrawModeGray() && !GetObjectContact().isDrawModeHighContrast())
                 {
                     // if visible, create the default background primitive sequence
-                    static_cast< ViewContactOfMasterPageDescriptor& >(GetViewContact()).getViewIndependentPrimitive2DContainer(rVisitor);
+                    drawinglayer::primitive2d::Primitive2DContainer aBackground;
+                    static_cast<ViewContactOfMasterPageDescriptor&>(GetViewContact())
+                        .getViewIndependentPrimitive2DContainer(aBackground);
+                    createStructureTag(aBackground); // decoration, not content
+                    rVisitor.visit(std::move(aBackground));
                 }
             }
 
diff --git a/vcl/qa/cppunit/pdfexport/data/master-background-artifact.fodp b/vcl/qa/cppunit/pdfexport/data/master-background-artifact.fodp
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..41ecdb4d2de7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/vcl/qa/cppunit/pdfexport/data/master-background-artifact.fodp
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<office:document xmlns:office="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:office:1.0" xmlns:style="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:style:1.0" xmlns:text="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:text:1.0" xmlns:draw="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:drawing:1.0" xmlns:presentation="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:presentation:1.0" xmlns:fo="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:xsl-fo-compatible:1.0" xmlns:svg="urn:oasis:names:tc:opendocument:xmlns:svg-compatible:1.0" office:version="1.3" office:mimetype="application/vnd.oasis.opendocument.presentation">
+ <office:font-face-decls>
+  <style:font-face style:name="Liberation Sans" svg:font-family="'Liberation Sans'" style:font-family-generic="swiss" style:font-pitch="variable"/>
+ </office:font-face-decls>
+ <office:styles>
+  <style:default-style style:family="paragraph">
+   <style:text-properties style:font-name="Liberation Sans" fo:font-size="18pt" fo:language="en" fo:country="US"/>
+  </style:default-style>
+ </office:styles>
+ <office:automatic-styles>
+  <style:page-layout style:name="pm1">
+   <style:page-layout-properties fo:page-width="28cm" fo:page-height="15.75cm" style:print-orientation="landscape" fo:margin-top="0cm" fo:margin-bottom="0cm" fo:margin-left="0cm" fo:margin-right="0cm"/>
+  </style:page-layout>
+  <style:style style:name="dp1" style:family="drawing-page">
+   <style:drawing-page-properties draw:fill="solid" draw:fill-color="#ffcc00"/>
+  </style:style>
+  <style:style style:name="dp2" style:family="drawing-page">
+   <style:drawing-page-properties draw:fill="none" presentation:background-visible="true"/>
+  </style:style>
+  <style:style style:name="gr1" style:family="graphic">
+   <style:graphic-properties draw:fill="none" draw:stroke="none"/>
+   <style:text-properties style:font-name="Liberation Sans" fo:font-size="18pt"/>
+  </style:style>
+ </office:automatic-styles>
+ <office:master-styles>
+  <style:master-page style:name="Default" style:page-layout-name="pm1" draw:style-name="dp1"/>
+ </office:master-styles>
+ <office:body>
+  <office:presentation>
+   <draw:page draw:name="page1" draw:style-name="dp2" draw:master-page-name="Default">
+    <draw:frame draw:style-name="gr1" svg:width="10cm" svg:height="2cm" svg:x="2cm" svg:y="2cm">
+     <draw:text-box><text:p>Slide text</text:p></draw:text-box>
+    </draw:frame>
+   </draw:page>
+  </office:presentation>
+ </office:body>
+</office:document>
diff --git a/vcl/qa/cppunit/pdfexport/pdfexport2.cxx b/vcl/qa/cppunit/pdfexport/pdfexport2.cxx
index 6722949175ad..bd00617270cc 100644
--- a/vcl/qa/cppunit/pdfexport/pdfexport2.cxx
+++ b/vcl/qa/cppunit/pdfexport/pdfexport2.cxx
@@ -3812,6 +3812,80 @@ CPPUNIT_TEST_FIXTURE(PdfExportTest2, cool16122BadPantoneElement)
     CPPUNIT_ASSERT(bFound);
 }
 
+CPPUNIT_TEST_FIXTURE(PdfExportTest2, testTdf168462)
+{
+    uno::Sequence aFilterData{ comphelper::makePropertyValue(u"UseTaggedPDF"_ustr, true) };
+    loadFromFile(u"master-background-artifact.fodp");
+    save(TestFilter::PDF_WRITER,
+         { comphelper::makePropertyValue(u"FilterData"_ustr, aFilterData) });
+
+    vcl::filter::PDFDocument aDocument;
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT(aDocument.Read(*maTempFile.GetStream(StreamMode::READ)));
+    std::vector<vcl::filter::PDFObjectElement*> aPages = aDocument.GetPages();
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL(size_t(1), aPages.size());
+    vcl::filter::PDFObjectElement* pContents = aPages[0]->LookupObject("Contents"_ostr);
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT(pContents);
+    vcl::filter::PDFStreamElement* pStream = pContents->GetStream();
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT(pStream);
+    SvMemoryStream& rObjectStream = pStream->GetMemory();
+    SvMemoryStream aUncompressed;
+    ZCodec aZCodec;
+    aZCodec.BeginCompression();
+    rObjectStream.Seek(0);
+    aZCodec.Decompress(rObjectStream, aUncompressed);
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT(aZCodec.EndCompression());
+
+    // an operator shares its line with its operands, and sometimes with another operator
+    auto isPaintingOperator = [](const std::string_view line) {
+        for (size_t nPos = 0; nPos != std::string_view::npos;)
+        {
+            const size_t nStart = line.find_first_not_of(' ', nPos);
+            if (nStart == std::string_view::npos)
+                break;
+            nPos = line.find(' ', nStart);
+            const std::string_view aToken(
+                line.substr(nStart, nPos == std::string_view::npos ? nPos : nPos - nStart));
+            for (const auto op :
+                 { "f", "f*", "F", "S", "s", "B", "B*", "b", "b*", "Do", "TJ", "Tj" })
+            {
+                if (aToken == op)
+                    return true;
+            }
+        }
+        return false;
+    };
+
+    auto pStart = static_cast<const char*>(aUncompressed.GetData());
+    const char* const pEnd = pStart + aUncompressed.GetSize();
+    int nOpenMarks(0);
+    int nArtifacts(0);
+    OStringBuffer aUntagged;
+    // ISO 14289-1 7.1: content is either tagged or marked as an artifact
+    while (pStart != pEnd)
+    {
+        const auto pLineEnd = std::find(pStart, pEnd, '\n');
+        const std::string_view line(pStart, pLineEnd - pStart);
+        pStart = pLineEnd == pEnd ? pEnd : pLineEnd + 1;
+
+        if (line == "EMC")
+            --nOpenMarks;
+        else if (o3tl::ends_with(line, "BMC") || o3tl::ends_with(line, "BDC"))
+        {
+            ++nOpenMarks;
+            if (o3tl::starts_with(line, "/Artifact"))
+                ++nArtifacts;
+        }
+        else if (nOpenMarks == 0 && isPaintingOperator(line))
+            aUntagged.append(OString::Concat(line) + " ");
+    }
+
+    // without the fix the background was painted outside every marked-content section
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_MESSAGE(aUntagged.toString().getStr(), aUntagged.isEmpty());
+    // the page decoration, and the background the slide takes from its master page
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL(2, nArtifacts);
+    CPPUNIT_ASSERT_EQUAL(0, nOpenMarks);
+}
+
 } // end anonymous namespace
 
 CPPUNIT_PLUGIN_IMPLEMENT();