PDFToImage / PDFImageWriter seem to work very well for converting mainly text pdf documents to an image.
However, my goal is to convert mainly text pdf documents into a png with multiple levels of alpha transparency and to retain the transparent background in the original PDF. It looks like the only thing preventing this is: graphics.setBackground( Color.WHITE ); Inside PDPage convertToImage(int, int); I can get the desired result with: graphics.setBackground( new Color( 0, 0, 0, 0 ) ); Questions: 1. Should the pdfbox default to a transparent background, at least if the chosen color mode is rgba? I'd rather not have to maintain a patch on the source! 2. Is there a better way to accomplish this? I'm not sure if just settign the background to transparent is the right thing to do in all cases, but it does acheive the desired result whent the pdf is just text (including antialiased parts with more than one bit of alpha). Thank you! Armando
