Jon,
Please submit a bug report to JIRA
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX
and attach a PDF that has the problem, not just the image. The font
should be embedded unless the font is included in all OS.
I suspect this is a comeback of bug PDFBOX-1435. I wonder if your font
is a TT font.
If you can't attach the actual PDF, try to get the font and create a new
PDF (e.g. from WORD or Open Office) that has only that one glyph in
large size.
Tilman
Hi,
Can you help me figure out why some (especially recent) versions of PDFBox
aren't rendering text nicely?
I'm running PDFBox in a web server environment to rasterize PDFs with text
in them. However, I've found that in recent versions, I end up getting
garbled text using the same code.
Here you can see that this big cursive F has a weird break in it in the
middle and all the curves aren't smooth which is really obvious when you
compare this bad image (1.8.3) with the PDF or a good one (1.6.0).
[image: Inline image 1]
Here's what it's supposed to look like:
[image: Inline image 2]
What's weird is that I don't get the bad image when I use pdfbox-app.jar on
the PDF - it's only with my code.
Good versions:
1.6.0 (I'm on this now)
1.7.0-SNAPSHOT from approx 10/24/11
1.8.0-20130225.201137-98
Bad versions:
1.7.1
1.8.0-SNAPSHOT from approx 3/1/13
1.8.3
and many others in between
I ended up downgrading to 1.6.0 because I had some issues with transparency
on some of the good snapshots that were working, but I think the
transparency issues are resolved on 1.8.3.
Any idea what could cause this?
Thanks!
Jon
