Thanks for the pointer! I've created the issue https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1448 and linked already existing bugs which may be solved by this improvement.
Greetings, Thorsten 2012/11/19 Timo Boehme <[email protected]> > Dear Thorsten Hake, > > please open an improvement issue in > https://issues.apache.org/**jira/browse/PDFBOX<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX> > and attach your patch there. > > This way committers will see your patch and process it as necessary. > > > Kind regards, > Timo > > > Am 19.11.2012 12:24, schrieb Thorsten Hake: > > Hello, >> we'm using PDFBox in our current project to print a pdf file directly to >> an attached network printer. Printing PDF documents having only portrait >> pages within worked like a charm. Thank you very much for this! >> However we experienced problems with PDFs having LANDSCAPE pages >> defined, as the orientation is currently always defined by the printer >> service and not by the PDDocument. This may be desireable in some >> situations but undesirable in others (like others). Printing PDFs with >> PORTRAIT and LANDSCAPE pages in one document may lead to strange print >> results as the landscape pages are truncated to a PORTRAIT width. >> To allow the user of the PDFBox API to choose which orientation >> determination algorithm he wants to use, I've changed the current 1.7.1 >> version so that an "OrientationResolver" can be handled to the print >> methods. This OrientationResolver will be used by the PDPageable to >> determine the format of the page to be printed. >> Please have a look at the attached patch. It was inspired by the comment >> in Bug >> https://issues.apache.org/**jira/browse/PDFBOX-985<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-985> >> . >> I currently don't know what negative implications my patch has as I >> haven't fully grasped other usages of the print method, but it definitly >> helped me printing LANDSCAPE pages correctly. Also, I would like to know >> what I'll have to do to contribute this patch to the trunk. Whom do I >> have to contact? >> Thank you very much in advance. >> Greetings, >> Thorsten Hake >> > > > -- > > Timo Boehme > OntoChem GmbH > H.-Damerow-Str. 4 > 06120 Halle/Saale > T: +49 345 4780474 > F: +49 345 4780471 > [email protected] > > ______________________________**______________________________**_________ > > OntoChem GmbH > Geschäftsführer: Dr. Lutz Weber > Sitz: Halle / Saale > Registergericht: Stendal > Registernummer: HRB 215461 > ______________________________**______________________________**_________ > >
