Hi Tilman, Thank you for the reply. I don't see how that post was the same as mine and is answered. Forgive me.
That question was "What do I need to change to create a reasonably sized PostScript file?" The only answer that I see is that PostScript files are big by nature. My question was, "Is there a way in PDFBox to have it put the text directly into the PostScript file instead of passing it on as part of an image?" Seems like a different question to me. Sorry if I am mistaken. Ray -----Original Message----- From: Tilman Hausherr [mailto:thaush...@t-online.de] Sent: Friday, August 26, 2016 2:33 PM To: users@pdfbox.apache.org Subject: Re: PostScript files out of PDFBox seem to be bloated Asked and answered in https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39109841/printing-to-postscript-with-pdfbox-produces-a-massive-file-why Additionally, re the comment of Ken Sharp (who is a Ghostcript guy and thus has my maximum respect): PDFBox is not a converter, it renders regardless of the target format. In theory, it might be possible to make a converter, by replacing all graphics method calls with postscript commands. Tilman Am 26.08.2016 um 21:25 schrieb Clark, Raymond C: > Hi, > > I am using PDFBox to create PDFs and that is working great. I need to take > those PDF files and produce PostScript files from them. I can do that but > the file is bloated. I am creating the content streams with compress = true. > It seems to be that the following code is producing the PS file as an image > of the page instead of extracting the text and images and coding that as a > PostScript file. Is it possible to use PDFBox to create a PostScript file > with the text in it instead of an image of the page? > > This is a snippet of the code I am using to create the PostScript file: > > pdfGenerator.finishFileCreation(); > DocFlavor flavor = DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PRINTABLE; > StreamPrintServiceFactory[] factories = > > StreamPrintServiceFactory.lookupStreamPrintServiceFactories(flavor, > > DocFlavor.BYTE_ARRAY.POSTSCRIPT.getMimeType()); > if (factories.length == 0) { > throw new PrinterException("No PostScript factories > available"); > } > PDDocument document = pdfGenerator.getDocument(); > > PrintRequestAttributeSet aset = new > HashPrintRequestAttributeSet(); > aset.add(MediaSizeName.NA_LETTER); > // aset.add(Sides.DUPLEX); > > DocAttributeSet daset = new HashDocAttributeSet(); > // daset.add(Compression.GZIP); > > FileOutputStream fos = new FileOutputStream(filePathAndName); > Map<Integer, String> pageLayoutMap = > pdfGenerator.getPageLayoutMap(); > for (int i = 1; i <= document.getNumberOfPages(); i++) { > aset.add(new PageRanges(i, i)); > if > (pageLayoutMap.get(i).equals(PDFGenerator.ORIENTATION_LANDSCAPE)) { > aset.add(OrientationRequested.LANDSCAPE); > } else { > aset.add(OrientationRequested.PORTRAIT); > } > factories[0].getPrintService(fos).createPrintJob().print( > new SimpleDoc(new PDFPrintable(document, > Scaling.ACTUAL_SIZE, false), flavor, daset), aset); > } > fos.close(); > document.close(); > > Thank you, > Ray > > ________________________________ > > CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: This e-mail and any files transmitted with it are > intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are > addressed and may contain confidential and privileged information protected > by law. If you received this e-mail in error, any review, use, dissemination, > distribution, or copying of the e-mail is strictly prohibited. Please notify > the sender immediately by return e-mail and delete all copies from your > system. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@pdfbox.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@pdfbox.apache.org
