Option to ignore transparency when printing?

Quoting: [...] "PostScript is the grandaddy of PDF, and if you're reading about > printing you've already heard of it. It can represent text, vector graphics > and images, so if your PDF contains a vector shape it's going to be > reproduced almost exactly in PostScript. Other graphics operations (

Re: Option to ignore transparency when printing?

Thanks, initial tests are going well, this is very helpful! Would PDFBOX consider adding this as part of the API? Although at initial glance t doesn't seem like it would be that bad of a problem to rasterize most printed documents, it is a problem in the low-dpi world (e.g. 180 DPI, 203 DPI recei

Re: Broken font after rendering

Hi, I have had similar issues on Windows and it was a bug with the JDK. Please see here: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8256264 This took some research to uncover. Please see the below links. We worked with three JDK support providers for assistance, only the last support provider

Re: Option to ignore transparency when printing?

Well, I appreciate the help, it's very valuable. I've posted the code to the closed bug report, but incase this comes up in search engines, here's the class we wrote with your kind help: https://github.com/qzind/tray/blob/2a275bb729a3cf4b909fd683fbe23f7c1f8d4c2b/src/qz/printer/action/pdf/OpaquePD

Re: installing and running PDFBox within Python

Hi, On Mon, Sep 26, 2022 at 4:53 AM Peter Murray-Rust wrote: > TL;DR how to integrate PDFBox into a Python framework for installation and > use by non-computer-scientists? > I did a bit of digging and found the jpype project, which seems to work quite well for basic python->java functionality.

Second page missing printing a PDF

When printing the following PDF, some strange things occur: https://github.com/qzind/tray/files/11432463/sample_file-1.pdf - When printing to a virtual printer (e.g. PDFCreator), the first page prints normally, but the second page prints rasterized - When printing to a ZDesigner driver on

Re: Second page missing printing a PDF

> Works for me on windows with "print to PDF", the second page is > rasterized into 14 images. > Is this desired? If so, why? Do you have any ideas why the ZDesigner driver just ditches that second page? I'm only focusing on the rasterization because it seems coincidental. Reading the PCL from

Re: Second page missing printing a PDF

> > This ("ca") applies to the thin line and may be the cause of the > rasterization. That seems to be the culprit, thanks! We worked together in the past to coerce documents into never rasterizing... the fix we had originally written a workaround to removing transparent layers. https://issues

Re: Second page missing printing a PDF

> > What you could try is to extend *getNonStrokingPaint* and > *getStrokingPaint* > and set both values to 1 (that is the default if no ca/CA entry exists) > with *setAlphaConstant*() and *setNonStrokeAlphaConstant*(). Thanks. Do you mind offering a pointer on how to perform this? For example,

Re: Second page missing printing a PDF

e gs = > context.getResources().getExtGState(graphicsName); // existing line > gs.setNonStrokingAlphaConstant(1f); > gs.setStrokingAlphaConstant(1f); > > > Tilman > > On 17.05.2023 22:28, Tres Finocchiaro wrote: > > > > What you could

Re: Second page missing printing a PDF

> > I modified SetGraphicsStateParameters.java as describe Thanks a bunch, that fixes the second page rasterization, next to retest on actual hardware to see if it fixes the missing second page. :) - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com

Re: Second page missing printing a PDF

Update: With the rasterization avoided, the second page prints just fine now with Zebra's driver. 🎉 >

Re: PDF with mangled font rendering in some environments

Hi, Does this describe the problem? https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/pull/3631 https://bugs.openjdk.org/browse/JDK-8265761 If so, it may be fixed by updating Java (11.0.13 I believe is where the patch landed) - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com On Wed, May 24, 2023 at 2:34 PM Tilman Hausherr wrote:

Re: Starting out with HTML.

The best tools I've found for this are separate projects, such as https://wkhtmltopdf.org/, https://github.com/parallax/jsPDF, etc. - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com On Wed, Jun 28, 2023 at 3:57 PM Daniel Roach wrote: > New to the PDFBox, like it so far. Trying to research into converting > HTML i

Re: Password protected PDF opens in GUI apps but PDFbox says invalid password

I can reproduce. Works with Adobe, but not with *PDFDebugger* nor with *Decrypt* command line options. I have a feeling the document is using an unsupported form of encryption, but it will likely require debugging the source to find out. Probably worthy of a bug report: https://issues.apache.org

Using JPEG2000 with PrintPDF

Hi, I'm trying to print a PDF with JPEG2000 image in it. According to the docs, this should be as easy as adding JAI core and JAI JPEG2000 libraries to my classpath, but for some reason it's not working. Here's my command: java -cp "./jai-*.jar" -jar pdfbox-app-2.0.29.jar PrintPDF jpeg2000.pdf

Re: Using JPEG2000 with PrintPDF

tools.PrintPDF > -printerName "Microsoft Print to PDF" \jpeg2000.pdf > > Tilman > > On 23.08.2023 20:03, Tres Finocchiaro wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm trying to print a PDF with JPEG2000 image in it. According to the > > docs, this should be as eas

Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

Hi, I have a document (USPS shipping label) that was created using (what I believe to be Apache FOP) here: https://github.com/qzind/tray/files/12458435/Public-Test-Label.pdf Preview's inspector says: > "Apache FOP Version 2.3; modified using iText® 5.5.6 ©2000-2015 iText > Group NV" - When

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

> > We gave up on fixing that because it renders properly at higher > resolutions. Hi, can you help you explain what this means? For example, is there an attribute of the PDF that influences this 72 dpi that you're referring to? In the case of the document, I would expect it to scale proportiona

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

Is there a way to increase this programmatically? I'm still not sure what the 72 dpi is, is this something that can be adjusted? The contents of the PDF are predominantly vectors, so I would expect the document to scale up properly as it does for all other applications I've tested. - tres.finocc

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

Hi, yes, I understand this, but are you saying it's a bug with the way the PDF is created? Since it contains mostly factor shapes, I would expect it to scale properly, as it does with other applications. Is this assumption wrong? The PDF is created by a 3rd party application (possible directly f

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

Typo: it contains mostly *vector shapes

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

> > The PDF is likely fine. The bug is either with PDFBox or with Java itself. > My suspicion is that it's a rounding error. Thanks. Should I file a bug report against this behavior? Somewhat unrelated but I tracked down the source of the PDF and it comes from Pitney Bowes API: https://docs.shi

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

Hi, Your initial complaint was about PDFDebugger PDFDebugger was mentioned because the top and bottom cut off symptom was visible there as well as the PDFwriter. The original symptom we observed was that the right side of the bordering box on the PDF is cut off. This right side is only cut of

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

> > It's mostly in PageDrawer.java search for things line width and clip. I attempted to make some modifications to PageDrawer, but couldn't figure out any changed that improved the behavior. Also convert the PDF to uncompressed and try to change the page content > stream so that only the lines

Re: Re: Little CMS

I don't think Profile Version 2.3.0 is the LittleCMS version. At time of writing this, OpenJDK@11.0.21 corretto is at LCMS 2.15 per https://github.com/corretto/corretto-11/tree/11.0.21.9.1/src/java.desktop/share/native/liblcms/ . You may also be able to obtain the LCMS version by parsing the "leg

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

I can reproduce with an example provided with Apache FOP: ./fop -fo examples/fo/basic/border.fo -pdf foo.pdf It seems to use the same trapezoidal vector borders as the originating PDF. When printing to a 4x6 label printer, some of the borders disappear. Should this be enough for a bug report?

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

... also, replacing the border-width="0.5mm" with "1mm" everywhere in the FO file is a viable workaround.

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

a reproducible example will greatly help track this down, I'll do some more testing and submit a proper bug report with exact steps to reproduce. Thanks so far for all the help. -Tres - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com On Sat, Nov 11, 2023 at 9:50 AM Tilman Hausherr wrote: > On 09.11.2023

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

> > This isn't a PDFBox bug. The fact that this only occurs on MacOS reminds me quite a bit of PDFBOX-4709, where Windows would suffer quality issues at certain DPIs (probably best illustrated visually here: https://github.com/adoptium/adoptium-support/issues/45#issuecomment-655696251 ). PDFBOX-

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

> > Even if this is a Java bug, being able to detect which PDFs suffer from it > would be helpful. At least then you could warn users instead of them > running into silent failures. I don't yet know how to detect this issue, but since the producer of the PDF -- PitneyShip -- could end up sending

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

> > > https://drive.google.com/file/d/1E3Q9JlywRFyKJ7rSwL9rQNEGdbmvDbgc/view?usp=sharing > > This is an improved file with a rectangular clipping. The trapezoidal > form is not relevant IMHO. > I forgot to mention that this file didn't reproduce the printing issues in my testing, which is why the

Re: Slight rendering issues Apache FOP document

> > > It's mostly in PageDrawer.java search for things line width and clip. Attempts to affect the line width are ineffective. For example, there's a function in PagDrawer which ensures that the threshold for lineWidth is at least 0.25. I've changed this to 2.0f, 10.0f and no perceivable differ

Re: pdfbox warnings

> > > ExternalFonts.addSubstitute("ZapfDingbats", "WingdingsRegular"); > > That will map Zapf Dingbats to Webdings. If it works then we can include > that substitution by default in PDFBox. Just a lurker chiming in here... If John Hewson's statement is true, doesn't the substitution solve this?

Re: pdfbox warnings

@John, Thanks for sharing the findings, that is great news. :)

Re: pdfbox warnings

> > > Where are you getting the Arial Unicode MS? It doesn't come with > Windows, that is, it's not installed on my Windows 8.1 Pro. Hm... Good question... According to Wikepedia, this may actually be distributed with Microsoft Office per: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arial_Unicode_MS#Versions w

Re: pdfbox warnings

Here's a side-by-side of some fairly common MS fonts... http://i.imgur.com/Xf0IpnF.png - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com On Wed, Apr 8, 2015 at 2:22 PM, Maruan Sahyoun wrote: > > > Am 08.04.2015 um 20:05 schrieb Tilman Hausherr : > > > > Am 08.04.2015 um 19:59 schrieb Eric Douglas: > >> Where are

Re: pdfbox warnings

Thanks for this John! :)

Re: Can't map code X in font exception

>From my experience the font mapping (1.8 branch) causes quite a bit of noise in the logs. And since 1.8 doesn't support embedding of fonts, the best way to suppress the warnings is to either use the same font on both platforms, or compile in a custom font mapping which will allow pdfbox to fallba

Re: Shell Can't Find pdfbox

> [...] it appears to be a different method than what the Apache PDFBox documentation specifies Can you please provide a link to the incorrect documentation? No Java I've used recommends putting JAR files in a UNIX PATH search location. The only possible thing I can think of is a wrapper script

Re: Shell Can't Find pdfbox

If you are using PDFBOX as a standalone plugin, I would advise against installing this to "~/Library/Java/Extensions" and instead running it from absolute path as recommended by the wiki as well as the developers. (The wiki may be vague about this, but "java -jar" is an example all Java projects u

Re: Shell Can't Find pdfbox

*most of us on the list * author such software (Sorry, autocorrect put a bad word in there, my apologies).

Re: Get PDFBox working

> > Is Java 6 required for version 2 RC1? > Yes per the

Re: Get PDFBox working

> > Is Java 6 required for version 2 RC1? > Yes per the building page https://pdfbox.apache.org/building.html JDK 6+

RE: Get PDFBox working

> Is it 32 bit or the 64 bit version? As a general rule, either (any). Java rarely cares, it should be transparent 99.9% of the time.

High res vs. vector

Hi, I'm trying to determine the best way to achieve high resolution PDF printing with PDFBOX 2.0. Our programmer recently wrote some logic to use PDFPrintable but I noticed the fonts were rasterized, so I started converting the code to use PDFPageable instead (since we had upgraded from a system

Re: High res vs. vector

16 at 10:44 AM, Tres Finocchiaro < tres.finocchi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to determine the best way to achieve high resolution PDF > printing with PDFBOX 2.0. > > Our programmer recently wrote some logic to use PDFPrintable but I noticed > th

Re: High res vs. vector

I've confirmed the quality issues go away when using *dpi=0* with PDFCreator . So we're changing our logic to default to *dpi=0* as recommended and we'll be careful not to benchmark too much of our quality upon the default output of the XPS document writer. Much ob

Re: PBox Newbie Seeking Immediate Solution (and Hand w/ Building A PDFBox Instance)

Rafiki, I am seeking an immediate PDF-to-Database solution. Urgency demands on a public, community-supported list are never taken well . In fairness, my inquiry is not about dbasea in general, but exclusively

Re: PDF scraping -> Access DB part 2

This question really isn't about PDFBOX. It's really about dynamic SQL generation/insertion and best practices and also (assuming you're using Java) gets a bit into how to use JDBC to connect to Access

ConvertColorspace in 2.0

I'm attempting to implement gray-scale printing. In my research the Chromaticity.MONOCHROME print attribute seems to be ignored by most print drivers. Research shows there is a utility in PDFBOX 1.x called ConvertColorspace. Does such a ConvertColorspace tool exist for 2.0? If not, is there a re

Re: Data from PDF - > MS Access

> > There is a good outlook connector called moyosoft but it does cost about > $200 I'm not sure why you'd use outlook at all. If the data is going to be available in email, use something that can fetch email silently and process the inbox as a batch process. To have a desktop application inter

Re: PdfBox 2.0 scale to A4 while printing document

Please forgive me for bumping an old thread, but has anyone tried 2.0.0 with custom margins when using a non-zero density? With density zero, we get desired results, but if we specify the DPI (force rasterization), we get some strange margins on the right and on the bottom Preview: https://cl

Scaled and rasterized, undesired margins

The code says it all... To summarize: If we SCALE_TO_FIT and provide custom margins, we get very strange output. Before filing a bug, I wanted to make sure we're using the library correctly. https://gist.github.com/tresf/e6220b0880974df61ee41861c9e7193c public static void main(String[] args) t

Re: Scaled and rasterized, undesired margins

https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3306 - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 9:58 AM, Tres Finocchiaro wrote: > Bug report filed: > > > - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com > > On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Tres Finocchiaro < > tres.finocchi...@gm

Re: Scaled and rasterized, undesired margins

Bug report filed: - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 12:08 PM, Tres Finocchiaro < tres.finocchi...@gmail.com> wrote: > The code says it all... > > To summarize: If we SCALE_TO_FIT and provide custom margins, we get very > strange output. > > Before f

Re: Guidance on fonts in 2.0.1 on Linux

Does 2.0 still support FontMapping.properties? Besides the unicode limitations you've spoken of, I had great success doing this with 1.8 on Ubuntu to get better support for the free alternative fonts (ended up recompiling myself just to get the file embedded into the JAR). I've linked my sample p

Re: apache licensing problem

Here's a section from apache.org specifically labeled "I'M NOT A LAWYER. WHAT DOES IT ALL MEAN?" - http://www.apache.org/foundation/license-faq.html#WhatDoesItMEAN This is a good place to start, because it's from a "Frequently Asked Questions" which is specifically aimed at the high-level ques

Re: Image size and dimensions question

> > Does PDFBox have limitations on image size and dimentions? If so what are > they? I can't seem to come across this information. Assuming you're using Windows and the official Oracle JVM: - the 32-bit JVM, the max heapsize Java will allow without modification is 256 MB - the 64-bit J

embedded fonts

Hi, I'm the author of qz-print and for our next release, we're switching from pdf-renderer to pdf-box. Things are working pretty well in terms of integration, however I've noticed that fonts seem to render a bit off on some platforms. After investigating this, I decided to make the output a bit m

Re: embedded fonts

...@gmail.com On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 12:51 AM, Tilman Hausherr wrote: > Yes this is a known problem. PDFBOX 2.0 has a much improved font > rendering. But that one needs JDK 6 :-( > Tilman > > Am 26.02.2014 06:41, schrieb Tres Finocchiaro: > > Hi, I'm the author of

Re: Clickable links

Do you have the proper amount of slashes? (Assuming you do) This answer doesn't really apply to PDFBox specifically, but from my experience with local file:// URLs, is that this is an OSX security measure which block the functionality. This is just a hunch but I've had java applets blocked in S

Re: Pdf with Times New Roman and Cyrillic glyphs = weird characters extracted

Not sure if this is relevant but I made a font map which helped with unknown fonts on *nix systems: https://github.com/qzindustries/qz-print/blob/master/pdfbox_1.8.4_qz/src/org/apache/pdfbox/resources/FontMapping.properties Feel free to borrow some for fedora if it helps!

Re: PDFBox 1.8.4 and pdf's generated by MS Word

FYI - For compatibility reasons, I tend to use a dedicated PDF print driver for Microsoft Word documents, such as CutePDF or PrimoPDF on the Windows side. >From the Mac and Linux side, there is a small application which enables CUPS pdf generations. These methods seem to work well with PDFBOX 1.8

Re: Discrepancy between rendered and extracted characters.

@ZS, Is the text part of the original PDF or has it been created with OCR? That sounds similar to an OCR issue where the scanner that scanned in the document made the mistake. -Tres

Re: Discrepancy between rendered and extracted characters.

In my experience these issues with OCR are unavoidable. If you have frequent issues with certain characters you could replace them with a regex string replacement, but unfortunately to do proper context sensitive spelling and grammatical corrections in combination with OCR would have to be investe

Re: Discrepancy between rendered and extracted characters.

I've also noticed scanning the document at higher resolutions helps with these types of issues as well, but I've never had a "perfect" OCR scan. They always have spaces or unrecognized characters in some place of the document. :) -Tres

Re: PDF text extraction result different from what they look in PDF reader application

> > Is there a way to prevent this? I mean a way to configure PDFBox not > to extracted the scanned text and get the right displayed text? @Andreas, This may be the bug report to follow. In short, not yet. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1912

Re: Converting RTF inputstream to PDF inputstream

@Bharathi, This doesn't directly answer your question and is irrelevant to the mailing list but I wanted to let you know that JEditorPane has built-in RTF support which may help you in your solution. Here's a snippet from a project I've worked on: https://github.com/qzindustries/qz-print/blob/mas

Re: embedded fonts

the 2.0 version is very stable. There's currently a lot > going on but I hope that all the regressions will be solved in a few days. > > Tilman > > Am 26.02.2014 06:55, schrieb Tres Finocchiaro: > > @Tilman, >> >> Thank you for the record-breaking fast res

Re: embedded fonts

gh it is > better than ever). > > Sorry, I can't tell (i.e. don't know) when the 2.0 version will be > released. See also the controversial discussion on the dev mailing list. > > Tilman > > Am 21.10.2014 um 19:17 schrieb Tres Finocchiaro: > > @Tilman, >>

Re: help using PDFBox to print HTML > PDF

> > I'm looking for a command line utility that i can incorporate in a script. > I'm converting the XML to HTML, and was interested in a way to convert it > to PDF. This might be a nice place to start... http://wkhtmltopdf.org/ If that doesn't work, there are about 100 trial-ware apps out there

Re: Printing fails to render some page contents, potential PDFPageable rasterizing improvements

> > So the only way I can demonstrate the failure is to actually print to > physical paper (you can imagine that this is driving us crazy). I am > including code to actually run the print jobs at the bottom of this email. Hi, I'm just a community member but wanted to offer some testing... -

Re: Printing fails to render some page contents, potential PDFPageable rasterizing improvements

Kevin, > Thanks for the test - it is a good additional data point. If you are able > to easily test on Windows, and it fails, that would be very good > information to have. It might mean I need to open an issue with OpenJDK. Just an update, but I tested on Windows 11 using PDFBOX 3.x using both

Re: Printing fails to render some page contents, potential PDFPageable rasterizing improvements

Kevin, Just as an aside, if you (or anyone else here) does find yourself needing to escalate bugs with printing APIs to the JDK-level, please feel free to send me a DM. Here's some examples, authored by a commercial JDK-support provider that I work closely with. I say this out of empathy (no spo

Re: how to verify download

That's odd. The same exact files you tested worked just fine for me. - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com

Re: how to verify download

Larry, gnupg recommends gpg4win tool for Windows. https://www.gnupg.org/download/index.html#binary - Gpg4win will ask for a PayPal donation. You may set this value to $0 if you wish. - Gpg4win will ask you to install several components. Only Gnupg is required. Once Gpg4win is inst

Re: Inquiry: PDFBox FIPS Compliance – MD5 Usage in COSWriter Class

Srujith, Placing you explicitly on copy in case your email settings are filtering replies here... Tillman replied with this response: Done > https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5985 - tres.finocchi...@gmail.com

Re: Inquiry: PDFBox FIPS Compliance – MD5 Usage in COSWriter Class

+SRUJITH PULIPAKA Please see quoted text below which has a link to the snapshot build with this fix. (and please fix your emails settings so that these emails come through :D) On Thu, Apr 24, 2025 at 1:33 PM Tilman Hausherr wrote: > The fix to SHA-256 was Andreas. It turned out that SHA256 di

Re: Inquiry: PDFBox FIPS Compliance – MD5 Usage in COSWriter Class

u, Apr 24, 2025 at 12:09 PM SRUJITH PULIPAKA wrote: > Hi Tres, > As you are saying that SHA-256 doesn’t work in every environment, do I get > any workaround for this? > Please let me know your suggestions for FIPS enabled > Appreciate your help in advance. > > Thanks, > S

Re: Printing with page range fails on Mac OSX

> > > "org.apache.pdfbox.printing.PDFPageable.PDFPageable(PDDocument)" does > not work as expected when printing a specific page using the print dialog. > 3. Type "2" in both the "from" and "to" text boxes. > > 4. Click Print. I was able to confirm that page-rage does not work as expected, it