Hi,
Glad you like the improvements.
I experimented on this for myself some time ago by using this code:
https://www.java.net/node/670205 (I used solution 2 which doesn't use
JAI and modified the code so that it does compression)
However...
If you create an array with lots of images, your memory consumption
really goes up. So it would probably be better to render an image, then
add it to the tiff file, then render the next page and lose the
reference of the previous one so that the gc can get the space if needed.
Another reason why I didn't think about adding it to PDFBox is that the
ImageIOUtils is format-independent, i.e. you just pass an image and a
format name and it should work in a best possible way. But multipages
are available only for TIFF, so we'd suddenly have something specific
for a format. (pcx also supports multipage, but I doubt that this is
still used in the wild)
Tilman
Am 05.11.2014 um 21:24 schrieb A.D. Kent:
Hello PDFBox community,
Is there any way to utilize the new ImageIOUtils to convert PDF to
multi-page TIFF? The improved ImageIOUtils is great, but only
supports conversion of a single BufferedImage to an OutputStream, and
I'd like to write an array of BufferedImage to a multi-page TIFF. As
it stands right now, my current process utilizes PDFRenderer to
produce an array of BufferedImage, which I convert to multi-page TIFF
via JAI.
Just looking for a more efficient way.
Thanks,
A.D. Kent
