On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 6:25 AM, Daniel Wilson <[email protected]> wrote: > Sebastian, > > Are you using PDFBox 0.7.3? Andreas has fixed most of those font problems > in 0.8.0. > > If 0.8.0 doesn't work for you either, please create an issue and attach one > of the PDF's with which you're having problems. > > Thanks. > > Daniel Wilson > > On Thu, May 21, 2009 at 3:50 AM, Sebastian Ortiz Vasquez > <[email protected]>wrote: > >> Hello Ben, >> >> I write to you because you write lot of code with i have problems, >> also please excuse my english is not good. >> >> I want to send a PDF by Fax, in order to do that i need to convert the >> pdf to image, by now i am using pdf-render library but it dosen't >> render the image at good quality the the fax is poor. >> >> I am looking in pdfbox a good alternative, because it works better, >> but in my particular case isn't working. >> >> I use iText 2.1.4 to generate some text on the PDF i need to send by >> fax, when i try to use PDFToImage the final image don't contain any >> text i write. >> >> I have been debuggin last four hours the code of pdf, at the >> begginning i got some problems relative with fonts because my linux >> box dosen't have the font pdfbox was looking for (arial, >> timesnewroman). >> >> I got this stack for writting text >> >> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font.drawString(PDType1Font.java:2xx) >> //I modified other things >> >> org.apache.pdfbox.pdfviewer.PageDrawer.processTextPosition(PageDrawer.java:174) >> >> org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processEncodedText(PDFStreamEngine.java:446) >> org.apache.pdfbox.util.operator.ShowText.process(ShowText.java:50) >> >> org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:497) >> >> org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:217) >> >> org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:176) >> org.apache.pdfbox.pdfviewer.PageDrawer.drawPage(PageDrawer.java:90) >> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage.convertToImage(PDPage.java:669) >> org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFImageWriter.WriteImage(PDFImageWriter.java:86) >> org.apache.pdfbox.PDFToImage.main(PDFToImage.java:165) >> >> I find the way pdf box renders the image is first in >> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage.convertToImage(PDPage.java:669) it >> creates a new BufferedImage that will be the final image, with this >> bufferedImage get the graphics an pass it to each other components >> that in the end PageDrawer will be write on it. >> >> I think the are some problems with this because i write to an image >> BufferedImage retVal in >> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPage.convertToImage(PDPage.java:669) and >> dosen't contains anything. >> >> But i'm sure the >> org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font.drawString(PDType1Font.java:2xx) >> is drawing the String rigth in the graphics that the method gets. >> >> I really apreciate your time and ideas with this problem. >> >> You can reproduce the problem using some pdf made with iText >> http://itextdocs.lowagie.com/tutorial/general/index.php >> -- >> Sebastián Ortiz Vásquez. >> Estudiante Ingeniería de Sistemas. >> Auxiliar de Investigación Grupo de Física Atómica. >> Universidad de Antioquia. >> Oficina: 2196577 >> SIP: 3903639 >> 2009 >> >
Added as issue. https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-478 -- Sebastián Ortiz Vásquez. Estudiante Ingeniería de Sistemas. Auxiliar de Investigación Grupo de Física Atómica. Universidad de Antioquia. Oficina: 2196577 SIP: 3903639 2009
