Hi,
Adobe is always the "Gold Standard". So PDFBox is never "better" than Adobe.
Extracting PDF pages and recombine works nicely except for structure
tree elements (for "accessible" PDFs), see recent issues in JIRA.
Another weirdness is splitting PDF when resources are not on the page
level.
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3428
This is usually not the case and the javadoc mentions a workaround, but
who reads javadocs...
But if that problem happens you will see it, if some human looks at the
output.
Tilman
Am 18.12.2018 um 02:17 schrieb Rick Gallo:
Hi, Team,
We are looking to Compare and contrast PDFBox and Adobe PDF.
We are a marketing firm that has clients for which we send out mail
that has to be exact.
To improve a process of proofing these documents, we asked someone to
write some code, which uses java to extract pdf pages to another pdf file.
Adobe is seen as the industry standard, but the developer wants to use
PDFBox. I’m ok with it, but we have to convince our CEO, who is
hyper-sensitive to possible errors.
So, I’m looking for opinions that compare Adobe PDF to PDFBox. Are
they identical? Is one better than another? From a few forums,
PDFBox shouldn’t be used for brand new docs, but all of our docs will
be existing. I also saw a forum where PDFBox created some funky
characters. A while back, someone in our group used Microsoft PDF
which also created some funk.
We really want to use the new code because it will speed up our
process, but if one job goes haywire I may lose my job, or if the
client leaves us, a good chunk of us will be laid off. I’m not sure
if I can convince our CEO that Adobe PDF and PDFBox are equal, at least.
Your thoughts?
At Your Service,
Rick Gallo
Pre-Print Manager
Redstone Print and Mail, Inc.
(925) 335-9090 Office
(888) 779-3884 Fax
[email protected]
