Hi!
That is why I'm printing on a physical printer. I'm also testing a Zebra, I
think it is a ZM400. The label I'm printing via PDF is 50mmx40mm. The PDF
look OK, but when Zebra prints it out it looks all pixelated. Maybe I can
do something on the printer. I'll see.
Best regards,
Kovi
2015-05-21 1:54 GMT+02:00 John Hewson <[email protected]>:
>
> > On 20 May 2015, at 14:56, Gregor Kovač <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > You don't have to open anything, since the 5th line from bottom is a
> > picture. Well, at least it looks like it when I open the original file
> in a
> > PDF viewer.
>
> Yes it's a picture, but it shouldn't be there at all- at least, it's not
> there in Acrobat.
>
> > About the quality I'll have to investigate further, since my printer
> gets a
> > nasty error when I try to print on it. It I just send the pdf to it via
> lpr
> > program then it prints fine.
>
> Do be aware that virtual printer drivers will never quite be the same as
> printing on a physical printer.
>
> -- John
> > Best regards,
> > Gregor
> >
> > 2015-05-20 21:58 GMT+02:00 John Hewson <[email protected]>:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >>> On 20 May 2015, at 07:05, Gregor Kovač <[email protected]> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi!
> >>>
> >>> I'm using PDFBOX 2.0 (updated subversion today) and this code to print:
> >>>
> >>> private static void printWithPDFBox2(File pdfFile, int copies) {
> >>> PDDocument document = null;
> >>>
> >>> try {
> >>> document = PDDocument.load(pdfFile);
> >>>
> >>> PrinterJob printJob = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob();
> >>> printJob.setJobName(pdfFile.getName());
> >>
> printJob.setPrintService(PrintServiceLookup.lookupDefaultPrintService());
> >>>
> >>> printJob.setCopies(copies);
> >>> HashPrintRequestAttributeSet printRequestAttributeSet =
> >>> new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
> >>> printRequestAttributeSet.add(new Copies(copies));
> >>> printRequestAttributeSet.add(SheetCollate.COLLATED);
> >>> PDFPrinter printer = new PDFPrinter(document,
> >>> Scaling.ACTUAL_SIZE, Orientation.PORTRAIT);
> >>> printer.print(printJob, printRequestAttributeSet);
> >>> } catch (Exception e) {
> >>> e.printStackTrace();
> >>> } finally {
> >>> if (document != null) {
> >>> try {
> >>> document.close();
> >>> } catch (Exception e) {
> >>> e.printStackTrace();
> >>> }
> >>> }
> >>> }
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Original PDF is located at:
> >>>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-qoYfDTAZ8QNkpINC1oZjFvbDg&authuser=0
> >>> What gets printed out is located at:
> >>>
> https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-qoYfDTAZ8QdmFlOVg0M2NFam8&authuser=0
> >>>
> >>> Why this quality degradation (as if fonts are not antialiased)? Even
> >>> setting dpi to 500 doesn't make it better.
> >>
> >> The PostScript file which you’ve linked to as the output looks fine. The
> >> fonts are all vector
> >> outlines. I see no pixilation. I suspect this is an issue with your
> >> PostScript viewer. Try
> >> zooming in further.
> >>
> >> I do see one issue which is that there’s an extra line of text in the
> >> PDFBox version when
> >> compared with Acrobat, that text is embedded as an image and is the 5th
> >> line from the
> >> bottom of the page. I’m not sure why that is, but we could open a JIRA
> >> issue for it.
> >>
> >> — John
> >>
> >>> Best regards,
> >>> Kovi
> >>>
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