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Posted to users@pdfbox.apache.org by Axel Rose <ax...@googlemail.com> on 2013/08/29 18:06:40 UTC

pdfBox convertToImage() vs GhostScript

Hi all,

I was surprised to see the rendering output of pdfbox via convertToImage().
This produces quite good quality in my tests.

Is there a known limit for supported formats, color spaces, transparency or
other constructs?

Can anybody say if pdfbox will develop to a quality replacement for
GhostScript as a RIP?

At the moment using pdfbox 1.8.2 there are a few "unsupported/disabled operation: XX"
messages (e.g. BX, EX, EMC, BDC).


Thanks and best regards

Axel.

Re: pdfBox convertToImage() vs GhostScript

Posted by Daniel Wilson <wi...@gmail.com>.
Last I knew, some of the gradient and masking functions were incomplete,
but most other areas worked very well.
On Aug 29, 2013 12:18 PM, "Maruan Sahyoun" <sa...@fileaffairs.de> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> pdf to image conversion is one of the top features of PDFBox and
> consistently improved. There will be some major enhancements in PDFBox 2.0
> when rendering PDFs with embedded fonts. Unfortunately there is currently
> no feature matrix documenting the PDF standard coverage of PDFBox (but we
> are working on it).
>
> BR
>
> Maruan Sahyoun
>
>
> Am 29.08.2013 um 18:06 schrieb Axel Rose <ax...@googlemail.com>:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I was surprised to see the rendering output of pdfbox via
> convertToImage().
> > This produces quite good quality in my tests.
> >
> > Is there a known limit for supported formats, color spaces, transparency
> or
> > other constructs?
> >
> > Can anybody say if pdfbox will develop to a quality replacement for
> > GhostScript as a RIP?
> >
> > At the moment using pdfbox 1.8.2 there are a few "unsupported/disabled
> operation: XX"
> > messages (e.g. BX, EX, EMC, BDC).
> >
> >
> > Thanks and best regards
> >
> > Axel.
> >
>
>

Re: pdfBox convertToImage() vs GhostScript

Posted by Maruan Sahyoun <sa...@fileaffairs.de>.
Hi,

pdf to image conversion is one of the top features of PDFBox and consistently improved. There will be some major enhancements in PDFBox 2.0 when rendering PDFs with embedded fonts. Unfortunately there is currently no feature matrix documenting the PDF standard coverage of PDFBox (but we are working on it).

BR

Maruan Sahyoun


Am 29.08.2013 um 18:06 schrieb Axel Rose <ax...@googlemail.com>:

> Hi all,
> 
> I was surprised to see the rendering output of pdfbox via convertToImage().
> This produces quite good quality in my tests.
> 
> Is there a known limit for supported formats, color spaces, transparency or
> other constructs?
> 
> Can anybody say if pdfbox will develop to a quality replacement for
> GhostScript as a RIP?
> 
> At the moment using pdfbox 1.8.2 there are a few "unsupported/disabled operation: XX"
> messages (e.g. BX, EX, EMC, BDC).
> 
> 
> Thanks and best regards
> 
> Axel.
>