Hi, I've encountered a pretty strange behavior in Acrobat Reader with a PDF file generated with iText. Maybe somebody can help me shed some light on this?
The PDF is about 5x3 meters in size and contains an 8-bit CMYK TIFF image with an ICC profile as well as some rectangles that are in a spot color and some text. I'm not trying to do anything fancy, it's all pretty simple and straight-forward. The file in question can be found at http://mrb.lintranex.com/weird.pdf . Opening that file in Acrobat Reader 9.4.1 results in a completely blank page - until the "Show reference XObject targets" dropdown at the bottom of "Page Display Preferences" is modified. It doesn't actually matter what value it's changed to. Once that preference is changed, the PDF will be rendered but it's cut off at the right. Looking at the contents of the generated file (I've disabled compression) I can't see any invalid constructs, strange reference XObjects or any reason why it would be cut off like for instance exceeding the media box . KDE's Okular and Foxit Reader seem to render it properly. The question is: whose fault is it? Did I somehow manage to screw up the PDF and by changing the preference trick Acrobat into rendering the file anyway? Did iText insert something that confuses Acrobat? Is it a plain old Acrobat bug? I'd be very thankful for any ideas or hints that could help me solve this mystery :-) Best regards, Michael Bunzel Lintranex Systems ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more than 250 security defects in the development cycle. Locate bottlenecks in serial and parallel code that limit performance. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-dev2devfeb _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Many questions posted to this list can (and will) be answered with a reference to the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ Please check the keywords list before you ask for examples: http://itextpdf.com/themes/keywords.php
