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From: Tilman Hausherr <THausherr@t-online.de>
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Date: Fri, 28 Aug 2015 09:25:05 +0200
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Am 28.08.2015 um 07:57 schrieb Jon Wu:
> Thanks for the guidance on not creating a PageDrawer. It was already 
> in our codebase like that and I was adapting without checking examples 
> until now. Since it was wrong, nevermind what I had before except to 
> say that I was generating a transparent BufferedImage with it in 1.x 
> and 2.0.0 from Feb.
>
> Are both of these correct way to use PDFBox? With either of these on 
> the latest SNAPSHOT, I'm getting a black background.
>
> 1. new PDFRenderer(document).renderPageToGraphics(0, graphics);
> 2. new PDFRenderer(document).renderImageWithDPI(0, resolution,
> ImageType.ARGB);
>
> With #1, I was able to make it work by writing a transparent 
> background before renderPageToGraphics, but that is ugly of course. 
> There's nothing special about the PDF and it works fine with the 
> latest pdfbox-app.jar.

Every PDF is unique... upload your PDF somewhere, binary attachments 
don't work on the mailing list.

Tilman

>
> Tilman, yes setting a black transparent background doesn't really make 
> sense as a workaround, but given that I'm basically writing a couple 
> lines and I'm using ARGB, I don't know what else could be wrong.
>
> For reference, I attached the PNG I get with my general code on 1.x 
> and 2.0.0 from Feb (expected), and the black image converted to PNG 
> that I'm getting with 2.0.0 latest. The PDF to generate these is 
> attached too.
>
>
> On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:45 PM, Tilman Hausherr 
> <THausherr@t-online.de <mailto:THausherr@t-online.de>> wrote:
>
>     Am 27.08.2015 um 02:56 schrieb Jon Wu:
>
>         I'm getting a solid black background trying to convert a PDF
>         to an ARGB
>         BufferedImage after updating from 2.0.0-20150209.214830-1071
>         <tel:214830-1071> to
>         2.0.0-20150826.181706-1650. Is there any recent change that
>         could be
>         causing that?
>
>         --- Working OK on 20150209 ---
>
>         On 20150209, I had this and it worked fine - producing a
>         transparent image
>         once I converted to PNG using code like this:
>
>              BufferedImage result = new BufferedImage(width, height,
>         BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_ARGB);
>              Graphics2D graphics = result.createGraphics();
>              new PageDrawer(new PDFRenderer(document),
>         page).drawPage(graphics,
>         mediaBox);
>
>
>     That isn't the way you're supposed to use PDFBox.
>
>
>         --- Updating to latest broke things ---
>
>         When updating to the current snapshot, I simply changed the
>         last line to
>         use the new API:
>
>              new PDFRenderer(document).renderPageToGraphics(0, graphics);
>
>         Unfortunately, with this change + the newer version, I get a black
>         background on my BufferedImage instead of a transparent one.
>
>         I get the same issue when I do the following:
>
>              new PDFRenderer(document).renderImageWithDPI(0, resolution,
>         ImageType.ARGB);
>
>         I'd normally think there's something wrong with my code, but
>         this is the
>         only change I've made. Is there something wrong with the
>         rendering in the
>         latest PDFBox?
>
>
>     The best would be that you upload your PDF somewhere so we can
>     have a look at it.
>
>     The current code starts with a default bufferedimage of the type
>     you pass. Non ARGB images are assigned a white background, the
>     other images are kept as is.
>
>
>         --- Workaround ---
>
>         With renderPageToGraphics, if I call
>         graphics.setBackground(new Color(0, 0,
>         0, 0)); before rendering the page, I avoid this issue.
>         However, it seems
>         like this shouldn't be necessary.
>
>
>     So you're setting a black transparent background.
>
>
>         -- Cropping when rendering? ---
>
>         As a side note, I sort of miss being able to conveniently crop
>         the PDF
>         before rendering with a rectangle, but maybe I should just be
>         doing that in
>         Graphics2D land.
>
>
>     Tilman
>
>
>         Thanks,
>         Jon
>
>
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