Maruan, I had added pdf's to dropbox you can download it from here https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ruwz0l5hya2l4tp/9-zLVv96uw
Let me know if you cannot access this link. On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 8:22 PM, Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]>wrote: > 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.htmlto > >> > 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 > > >
