Hi,
Jeremy Ashkenas wrote:
Hi Andreas.
I'm working on a little Ruby wrapper gem for PDFBox that gives it a
pleasant command-line client, as well as a Ruby API. I'm hoping to
release the project in a couple of days, with support for extracting
individual pages, page images, document metadata, and full text.
I was a bit disturbed to see that the image quality of PDF rendering
that the PageDrawer provides. I've attached two images, one with the
page rendered by PDFBox, and the other with the page rendered by
GraphicsMagick. Can you tell me a little bit more about what's going on
with the rendering in the PDFBox version, and why it's not using the
right font or letter-spacing...
PDFBox doesn't support every part of the pdf-specification, so that some pdfs
are looking better, others are somehow scrambled. It depends on the used fonts,
encoding, pdf-creator etc.
In your case I guess that the used font isn't well supported by PDFBox, so that
the default font will be used instead. That leads to an other rendering than
expected.
Any light you can shed would be most helpful, or any pointers on how to
correct the problem.
We are on it, but as we are all volunteers, it will took more or less time.
Best wishes,
-- Jeremy Ashkenas
Please use our mailinglist [1] for further questions. I've cc'd my answer to the
users list.
BR
Andreas Lehmkühler
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