Hi Andreas, Thanks for your help, but I am not sure where to find this 'Do' line in pagedrawer.properties. I see that there is a package in the pdfbox jar file that is called org.apache.pdfbox.util.operator.pagedrawer, but I'm not sure where the 'do' line is. I'm guessing its somewhere within the invoke.class file but I am unable to find it.
Also after disabling this, what operators would I need run on the pdf file? Thanks for your assistance. Regards, Nicholas Tiong On 15/10/12 4:37 AM, "Andreas Lehmkuehler" <andr...@lehmi.de> wrote: >Hi, > >Am 04.10.2012 02:58, schrieb Nicholas Tiong: >> Hi, >> >> I'm new here and I've just discovered PDFBox. My experience with coding >>is >> fairly basic. >> >> Based on a sample code I found here, >> >>http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6831194/how-can-i-remove-all-images-dr >>awi >> ngs-from-a-pdf-file-and-leave-text-only-in-java >That code removes only those images which are directly referenced within >the >resources of a page/document. But those which are part of an other >XObject won't >be removed. > >> It seems that it should work for my purpose; that is to remove all >>images >> from a PDF whilst preserving formatting. Basically I plan to print a >>large >> document in black and white on a laser printer without pictures, and >>then >> run it through a colour inkjet for the pictures. >> >> Could anyone help me figure out why the code in the link above does not >> work? It creates the 'stripped' file and throws no exceptions but all >>the >> images are still within. >> >> I've found another PDFBox code that extract images and saves it to file >> which works for all individual pictures in the document, so I am >>certain the >> PDF is formatted correctly with pictures embedded within it. >> >> Any help would be much appreciated. >I guess it's easier to deactivate the "draw image" operator. Commenting >the "Do" >line in PageDrawer.properties should do the trick. > >> Regards, >> Nicholas Tiong > >BR >Andreas Lehmkühler >
