Pretty much confirms our thoughts. Regrettably I don't have Acrobat (only Reader) here but we did notice the loss of selectable text. Thanks for your time.
On 14 November 2013 15:42, Gilad Denneboom <[email protected]>wrote: > It seems that GS converted the text in the file to graphical elements. You > can see it in Acrobat if you open the Contents panel, and you can also see > that the text in the file is not selectable, and therefore can't be > extracted. > You'll need to look for a solution in GS. It has nothing to do with how > PDFBox works, as there's just no text to read in that file. > > > On Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 4:29 PM, James Green <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > This was created via a fairly obtuse means but suffice it say it should > > still work. > > > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/uaq5sqmlf88108p/sample-from-pdf.pdf > > > > This was me creating a document in LibreOffice Writer, exporting that as > a > > pdf then loading the pdf into DocumentViewer (Evince, although Adobe > > Reader) could also be used. This is then printed to a java application > via > > the windows PScript dll where the java app runs the received postscript > > through Ghostscript to get PDF and finally imported into PDFBox. > > > > This used to work a few weeks ago, and we are unsure why it does not now. > > Printing an odt directly from Writer into the Java app works fine. > > > > This is using PDFBox 1.8.2. > > > > Thanks, > > > > James > > >
