Hi Maruan, the PDF is not written to the client machine, i have in a byte array "pdfDoc" which is downloaded from the server.
this is all being done in an applet. it all works fine, expect when an image PDF file is created with a certain scanner HP scanjet 8500. Thanks Alain ________________________________ From: Maruan Sahyoun <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; Alain <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, August 6, 2013 1:44 PM Subject: Re: Having a problem using PDFParser Hi, loading a PDF should be done using PDDocument.load(). Take a look at java/org/apache/pdfbox/PrintPDF.java as a sample. BR Maruan Sahyoun Am 06.08.2013 um 19:07 schrieb Alain <[email protected]>: > Hi all, > > I have an application that generates a PDF. I download the pdf to the client > and i'm using the PDFParser > class to parse the PDF. Here is my code so far. > > > > DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE; > PrintRequestAttributeSet patts = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet(); > PrintService[] ps = > PrintServiceLookup.lookupPrintServices(flavor, patts); > if (ps.length == 0) { > throw new IllegalStateException("No Printer found"); > } > > PrinterJob job = PrinterJob.getPrinterJob(); > job.setPrintService(ps[8]); > > PDFParser parser = new PDFParser(new ByteArrayInputStream(pdfDoc)); > parser.parse(); > job.setPageable(parser.getPDDocument()); > job.print(); > > > My problem is when a scanned image in a PDF format is processed, the page > printed is blank. > > What i found was when a PDF file is created with PDF version 1.2, the image > does display on the print out. > If the PDF file created under version 1.4, it is blank. > > I was able to test this from using 2 different scanners, one generates a 1.2 > file and the other a 1.4 > > Can anyone shed some light on where i should be looking.. > > Best Regards > Alain
