Good evening! I am generating a single-page PDF file via XSLT/FOP, consisting of multiple tables of varying complexity and consisting of several figures created via SVG primitives (rect, path, text) in the used stylesheet.
After generating and exporting the document to the file system, I want to print it programmatically via PDFBox's PrintPDF class. This succeeds apparently, but the resulting print-out lacks _all_ of the lines in the document: all table borders (of various sizes) are missing, and all figures are missing too (a large diagram and several small symbols within the text). All texts are printed correctly, except for the heading of the document, which is written in a bold and bigger font. This problem occurs on every printer at my disposal (two physical laser printers and one virtual pdf printer). The problem does not occur when opening and/or printing the originally exported document via Adobe Reader - the document shows and prints perfectly. The problem is always reproducible. I am using the (as of now) latest PDFBox version 1.1.0 on a JDK 1.5.0u18 on Windows XP Professional SP3. When converting the pdf with PDFBox's PDFToImage class, the problem becomes smaller, but persists nonetheless: the resulting JPG lacks a good third of the table borders, but shows all of the SVG-based lines correctly. I searched the bug tracker and the mailinglist archives but could not find a recent matching discussion or tracker item. PDFBox seems to have had problems with table borders already (I remember reading about line styles and weights not being rendered correctly), but all of those seem to date back to version numbers around version 0.8. I would be most grateful if anyone on this list could point me towards a solution if such a solution exists for PDFBox. If a developer classifies my report as a potential bug in PDFBox, I would be happy to provide instances of the original PDF, a pdf copy of the resulting print-out and a sample of the image resulting from the PDFToImage-invocation directly to the developer as I don't want to spam the list with large attachments. I'll be happy to answer any further questions regarding this issue as well. Any help would be appreciated! Many thanks in advance and have a good day, --Christoph Schmidt
