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Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2013 14:52:23 +0530
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Subject: Re: PDF to Image conversion
From: Ankur Tripathi <ankur@intelligrape.com>
To: users@pdfbox.apache.org
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Hi Maruan,

Any update on this ?


On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 10:05 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de>wro=
te:

> Hi Ankur,
>
> unfortunately there are some issues with rendering these files. It needs
> some further analysis to find out why that happens.
>
> BR
> Maruan Sahyoun
>
> Am 06.06.2013 um 17:05 schrieb Ankur Tripathi <ankur@intelligrape.com>:
>
> > Maruan,
> >
> > I had added pdf's to dropbox you can download it from here
> > https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ruwz0l5hya2l4tp/9-zLVv96uw
> >
> > Let me know if you cannot access this link.
> >
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.de
> >wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Ankur,
> >>
> >> due to limitations of the mailing list the attachment didn't make it -
> >> could you upload to a public site?
> >>
> >> BR
> >> Maruan
> >>
> >> Am 06.06.2013 um 15:57 schrieb Ankur Tripathi <ankur@intelligrape.com>=
:
> >>
> >>> Hi Maruan,
> >>>
> >>> I have successfully converted pdf to images using pdfbox. However the=
re
> >> are couple of attached pdf which does not shows up filled in details.
> >>>
> >>> In my use case i need to merge different pdf's and than convert to
> >> series of images. Since these pdf are not converted to image properly =
i
> >> would like to avoid merge or fix image generation. Can you please poin=
t
> me
> >> to right direction.
> >>>
> >>> Converting this pdf with imagemagick works fine but i would like to
> >> avoid os level tool.
> >>>
> >>> Really appreciate your help
> >>>
> >>> Thanks
> >>> -Ankur Tripathi
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <sahyoun@fileaffairs.d=
e
> >
> >> wrote:
> >>>> Hi,
> >>>>
> >>>> the question if a PDF can be rendered successfully is not dependent =
on
> >> the fact that it's a PDF/A file. In general PDFBox does a good job in
> >> converting a PDF to image and it supports PDF/A as well as not PDF/A
> >> compliant files. There are some limitations though which may or may no=
t
> >> apply to you.
> >>>>
> >>>> - there are limitations in PDFs render mode i.e. not all possible
> >> render modes are supported
> >>>> - there are limitations in PDFs shading i.e. not all shadings are
> >> supported
> >>>> - font rendering is dependent on awt i.e. PDFBox generates a font fr=
om
> >> embedded font which is passed to awt. This works in most but not all
> cases.
> >>>> - always test if e.g. Adobe Reader can display the file
> >>>> =85.
> >>>>
> >>>> If while rendering PDFBox hit's an (yet) unsupported feature it will
> be
> >> reported. If you come across such a limitation please log an enhanceme=
nt
> >> request in Jira (you should search first if someone else already had a
> >> similar issue and add to that) so we can look into removing the
> limitation.
> >> Of course if you are able to contribute that's even better.
> >>>>
> >>>> For PDF/A (PDF/A-1b) PDFBox passes several test suites. So if you
> think
> >> you have a valid PDF/A file and PDFBox complains we are very intereste=
d
> in
> >> finding out why this is the case. But it's very likely that your file
> might
> >> not be PDF/A-1b compliant.
> >>>>
> >>>> If you have specific questions/issues please feel free to ask.
> >>>>
> >>>> Bottom line - I think PDFBox will help you doing the conversion. You=
r
> >> milage will vary dependent on the files content.
> >>>>
> >>>>
> >>>> BR
> >>>> Maruan Sahyoun
> >>>>
> >>>> Am 06.06.2013 um 12:12 schrieb Ankur Tripathi <ankur@intelligrape.co=
m
> >:
> >>>>
> >>>>> Hi,
> >>>>>
> >>>>> I have a use case in my project where i want to convert every page =
of
> >> pdf
> >>>>> to image. I have tried different opensource libraries like
> >> pdfrenderere,
> >>>>> open source version of jpedal etc but with each of them we have
> >> problems
> >>>>> with PDF/A pdf's. Before trying pdfbox i would like to know that if
> >> support
> >>>>> for embedded font and pdf/a is available in pdfbox api. If not is
> >> there any
> >>>>> way to identify if a particular pdf can not be converted to image, =
 I
> >>>>> already tried
> http://pdfbox.apache.org/cookbook/pdfavalidation.htmlto
> >>>>> validate uploaded pdf's but it fails for all of our pdfs but we are
> >> able to
> >>>>> convert them into image properly. There are only few formed filled
> pdf
> >>>>> which have not been converted to image properly.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks for help.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> Thanks
> >>>>> -Ankur Tripathi
> >>>
> >>
>
>

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