Hi, the question if a PDF can be rendered successfully is not dependent on the fact that it's a PDF/A file. In general PDFBox does a good job in converting a PDF to image and it supports PDF/A as well as not PDF/A compliant files. There are some limitations though which may or may not apply to you.
- there are limitations in PDFs render mode i.e. not all possible render modes are supported - there are limitations in PDFs shading i.e. not all shadings are supported - font rendering is dependent on awt i.e. PDFBox generates a font from embedded font which is passed to awt. This works in most but not all cases. - always test if e.g. Adobe Reader can display the file …. If while rendering PDFBox hit's an (yet) unsupported feature it will be reported. If you come across such a limitation please log an enhancement request in Jira (you should search first if someone else already had a similar issue and add to that) so we can look into removing the limitation. Of course if you are able to contribute that's even better. For PDF/A (PDF/A-1b) PDFBox passes several test suites. So if you think you have a valid PDF/A file and PDFBox complains we are very interested in finding out why this is the case. But it's very likely that your file might not be PDF/A-1b compliant. If you have specific questions/issues please feel free to ask. Bottom line - I think PDFBox will help you doing the conversion. Your milage will vary dependent on the files content. BR Maruan Sahyoun Am 06.06.2013 um 12:12 schrieb Ankur Tripathi <[email protected]>: > Hi, > > I have a use case in my project where i want to convert every page of pdf > to image. I have tried different opensource libraries like pdfrenderere, > open source version of jpedal etc but with each of them we have problems > with PDF/A pdf's. Before trying pdfbox i would like to know that if support > for embedded font and pdf/a is available in pdfbox api. If not is there any > way to identify if a particular pdf can not be converted to image, I > already tried http://pdfbox.apache.org/cookbook/pdfavalidation.html to > validate uploaded pdf's but it fails for all of our pdfs but we are able to > convert them into image properly. There are only few formed filled pdf > which have not been converted to image properly. > > Thanks for help. > > > Thanks > -Ankur Tripathi
