Hi Ankur, due to limitations of the mailing list the attachment didn't make it - could you upload to a public site?
BR Maruan Am 06.06.2013 um 15:57 schrieb Ankur Tripathi <[email protected]>: > Hi Maruan, > > I have successfully converted pdf to images using pdfbox. However there are > couple of attached pdf which does not shows up filled in details. > > In my use case i need to merge different pdf's and than convert to series of > images. Since these pdf are not converted to image properly i would like to > avoid merge or fix image generation. Can you please point me to right > direction. > > Converting this pdf with imagemagick works fine but i would like to avoid os > level tool. > > Really appreciate your help > > Thanks > -Ankur Tripathi > > > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:01 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> wrote: >> 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 >
