> Andreas, I'm using the trunk version. When I commented out the W/W*
> lines from PageDrawer.properties, the missing text started rendering
> (yeah!), 
Good! I'm still working on the clipping issue and I've just made some
great improvements. But there are some sideeffects I have to look at.

> but the text is drawn in the wrong typeface (boo!).
> 
> Thus words are overlapping. This might provide a clue about what's
> broken in the clipping-operators. I don't know. I think that if you get
> the right typeface the clipping problem will become undetectable. (The
I don't think so. I guess that's an other issue concerning the usage of
fonts. You'll find several issues in jira like that. We are working an
that ...
Is the font we are taking about embeded in the pdf (have a look at the
properties of your pdf with arcobat reader or an other reader which
supports to show the properties) or does pdfbox try to use an external font?

> PDF in question was created using LiveCycle, so the designer made sure
> the words didn't overlap.) I don't know if you got the PDF attachment,
> but I believe it is a 1.5 PDF, not a 1.7 PDF.
No, the attachement doesn't make it. The mailing list doesn't allow those.

Andreas Lehmkühler

> Andreas Lehmkühler wrote:
>>> I am attempting to use PdfBox to print the attached PDF...
>> What version of pdfbox are you using? If it is the trunk version:
>> Try to disable the clipping-operators by commenting out the W/W* in
>> the PageDrawer.properties file, because there are still some issues
>> concerning this feature (see [1] for more details).
>>
>> older version:
>> Is it possible to switch to the trunk version?
>>
>> Andreas Lehmkühler
>>
>> [1] https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-483

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