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Tres Finocchiaro edited comment on PDFBOX-5971 at 3/7/25 7:24 PM:
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bq. Now I understand, but then the issue is kindof the same as the old one. 

I agree, the escalation is identical but I'm happy to work from a new report as 
the issue there was easily solved with noColorOpt and that's likely to help 
others searching a problem of that severity.

bq. on my machine it outputs a barcode when printing to PDF on windows in 
default size (A4)

Sadly the code from PDFBOX-5967 outputs a blank page on both PDFwriter and the 
physical Zebra printer, I tried:
* Removing all transforms
* Converting PNG to JPEG

The only way I can get output is to change {{BufferedImage.TYPE_BYTE_BINARY}} 
to something else such as {{BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB}}




was (Author: tresf):
bq. Now I understand, but then the issue is kindof the same as the old one. 

I agree, the escalation is identical but I'm happy to work from a new report as 
the issue there was easily solved with noColorOpt and that's likely to help 
others searching a problem of that severity.

bq. on my machine it outputs a barcode when printing to PDF on windows in 
default size (A4)

Sadly the code from PDFBOX-5967 outputs a blank page on both PDFwriter and the 
physical Zebra printer, I tried:
* Removing all transforms
* Converting PNG to JPEG

The only way I can get output is to change it to {{BufferedImage.TYPE_INT_RGB}}



> Degraded quality on macOS when dpi is not provided
> --------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-5971
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-5971
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Bug
>    Affects Versions: 2.0.33, 3.0.4 PDFBox
>         Environment: openjdk 11.0.26
> macOS 15.3.1
>            Reporter: Tres Finocchiaro
>            Priority: Major
>         Attachments: image-2025-03-07-13-34-55-860.png, pb_usps_sample-1.pdf
>
>
> When providing a `-dpi` to PDFBOX:
> {quote}Render into intermediate image with specific dpi and then print. Use 
> -1 for automatic detection of printer resolution.
> {quote}
> When printing to a 203 DPI printer on macOS, the quality differences are 
> quite different, with `-dpi 203` being significantly better quality.  This 
> issue was originally discovered in PDFBOX-5967 due to a downstream usage 
> preferring `-dpi 203` for some older JDK versions due to a hard-crash 
> (PDFBOX-2682).
>  
> Good: (with DPI)
> {quote}{{java -jar ~/Downloads/pdfbox-app-2.0.33.jar PrintPDF -dpi 203 
> -noColorOpt ~/Downloads/pb_usps_sample.pdf}}
> {quote}
> Not as good: (without DPI)
> {quote}{{java -jar ~/Downloads/pdfbox-app-2.0.33.jar PrintPDF -noColorOpt 
> ~/Downloads/pb_usps_sample.pdf}}
> {quote}
>  * I understand that this may be a result of something happening at the 
> OS-level.  If this is the case, any guidance as to how to isolate and provide 
> a bug report for openjdk is greatly appreciated.
>  * If there's a workaround that can be used as a stop-gap leveraging the 
> PDFBOX API, that would also be greatly appreciated.
>  
> [^pb_usps_sample.pdf]
> !image-2025-03-07-13-34-55-860.png!
>  



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