Thanks Tilman. I opened https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1868.
The original PDF is attached to there and should be attached to my original post as well. I mentioned in the but that the PDF has an embedded TrueType (CID) font with Identity-H encoding and was written by iText and the issue isn't limited to this specific font but it's most obvious here so it's a good example. On Sat, Jan 25, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]>wrote: > 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 >> >
