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On Tue, Aug 26, 2014 at 6:04 PM, Timo Boehme <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > checking the rendering capabilities of PDFBOX 1.8 vs. current trunk I came > across a journal which showed severe problems in both - but different. > Problems of 1.8 are gone, new ones showed up. > > While the journal (Chemical&Engineering News, C&EN) does not provide free > PDF editions a sample edition can be downloaded via 'View a sample issue' > at http://cen.acs.org/static/about/digital.html (or directly via > http://www.cendigital.org/cendigital/sample/). I'm referring to volume > 92, nr 27 from 2014-07-07 which I downloaded yesterday but the same > problems also showed up in other journal issues. > > The problems (all on Linux, Java 1.6): > - PDFBOX 1.8 (svn 1620380) > - first letters of words in headlines are sometimes missing, e.g. on > page 2 "Getting ..." reads " et ing ...", "Overview" -> " verview" > - bad character spacing because of substituted font > > - PDFBOX trunk (svn 1620415) > - no missing letters but heavily distorted and displaced > letters in headlines (e.g. page 2) > - compared to 1.8 correct font is used > - picture colors are completely wrong; > logged warning: org.apache.pdfbox.filter.DCTFilter decode > WARNUNG: Inconsistent metadata read from JPEG stream > - transparent background instead of white > > - PDFBOX trunk, no-awt svn 1620487 > - font rendering ok > - picture/background problems as in trunk > > Since these are multiples problems on different versions and the PDF is > not freely distributable I did not create a JIRA issue. Nevertheless it is > a widely distributed journal and a good test case for the rendering > quality. At least the JPEG rendering problem of the current trunk should be > solved. > > > Best, > Timo > > -- > > Timo Boehme > OntoChem GmbH > H.-Damerow-Str. 4 > 06120 Halle/Saale > T: +49 345 4780474 > F: +49 345 4780471 > [email protected] > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > OntoChem GmbH > Geschäftsführer: Dr. Lutz Weber > Sitz: Halle / Saale > Registergericht: Stendal > Registernummer: HRB 215461 > _____________________________________________________________________ > >
