Hi there, I am trying to use pdfbox 1.7.1 to render PDFs in my application, with mixed success. PDFs that consist of a single image for each page (such as faxed TIFFs that have been converted to PDF) render quite well, but PDFs containing text do not.
I've attached a copy of a CUPS printer test page. Viewed in Adobe Reader, the document renders just fine. In my application, using pdfbox's convertToImage, none of the text is rendered, nor the CUPS logo. The only thing visibly rendered is the black border. Otherwise the page is blank white. pdfbox doesn't throw or log any exceptions. I've attached all the DEBUG output generated in PDFStreamEngine while the page is failing to render. The test page was generated as postscript by CUPS, and then converted to PDF by the ps2pdf utility. I've tried to work around this using other libraries. pdfrenderer manages to render the CUPS test page just fine, but completely bombs out trying to render TIFFs. ICEpdf pro renders both types, but the free version fails on text. Is there a way I can make this work with pdfbox? Or, is there some disciplined way to determine at runtime when pdfbox is failing to render, so I can switch over to a different rendering library as needed? Cheers, BJ
