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Posted to users@pdfbox.apache.org by Christian Puritscher <cp...@sirconic-group.de> on 2023/11/16 10:49:23 UTC
Issue with PDFs merged in PDFMerger and printing in Acrobat Reader
Hello,
we have an issue with the merged PDF created with the PDFBox PDFMerger
(problem exists in 2.x and 3.x) in Acrobat Reader (current version
2023.006.20380, but also older versions, tested on Windows and Mac):
When we merge two (or more) PDFs then the merged PDF seems fine. For
example when we merge a 2 page PDF and a 4 page PDF the resulting PDF is
6 pages long and displays perfectly fine (the used example PDFs have
been attached to the mail).
Also when printing the entire document it works fine.
But when we want to print specific pages, Acrobat Reader only allows to
set a range spanning the pages of the last document added to the merged
pdf (so in our example when we added a 2 page PDF and a 4 page pdf to a
6 page pdf we now can only choose to print a specific page from page
1-4, it does not allow any other input, nor print the correct pages):
Using a different PDF Viewer (for example the built-in PFD Viewer from
Firefox) instead of Acrobat Reader it seems to work fine, but we can
hardly convince our customers to change their default PDF viewer.
Any idea how we can handle this issue?
Thanks!
Re: Issue with PDFs merged in PDFMerger and printing in Acrobat Reader
Posted by Christian Puritscher <cp...@sirconic-group.de>.
Hey,
I've uploaded the files:
Screenshot of the Acrobat Reader print dialogue:
https://sirconic-group.de/wp-content/uploads/pdfbox/acrobatreaderprint.png
Test pdf 1 (2 pages):
https://www.sirconic-group.de/wp-content/uploads/pdfbox/testdocument1_2_pages.pdf
Test pdf 2 (4 pages):
https://www.sirconic-group.de/wp-content/uploads/pdfbox/testdocument2_4_pages.pdf
Merged PDF (6 pages):
https://www.sirconic-group.de/wp-content/uploads/pdfbox/mergeddocument_6_pages.pdf
Thanks again!
Am 16.11.2023 um 11:59 schrieb sahyoun@fileaffairs.de:
> Hi,
>
> the PDFs didn't make it to the mailing list. Can you upload these to a
> public location?
>
> BR
> Maruan
>
> Am Donnerstag, dem 16.11.2023 um 11:49 +0100 schrieb Christian
> Puritscher:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> we have an issue with the merged PDF created with the PDFBox
>> PDFMerger (problem exists in 2.x and 3.x) in Acrobat Reader (current
>> version 2023.006.20380, but also older versions, tested on Windows
>> and Mac):
>>
>> When we merge two (or more) PDFs then the merged PDF seems fine. For
>> example when we merge a 2 page PDF and a 4 page PDF the resulting PDF
>> is 6 pages long and displays perfectly fine (the used example PDFs
>> have been attached to the mail).
>>
>>
>> Also when printing the entire document it works fine.
>>
>> But when we want to print specific pages, Acrobat Reader only allows
>> to set a range spanning the pages of the last document added to the
>> merged pdf (so in our example when we added a 2 page PDF and a 4 page
>> pdf to a 6 page pdf we now can only choose to print a specific page
>> from page 1-4, it does not allow any other input, nor print the
>> correct pages):
>>
>>
>> Using a different PDF Viewer (for example the built-in PFD Viewer
>> from Firefox) instead of Acrobat Reader it seems to work fine, but we
>> can hardly convince our customers to change their default PDF viewer.
>>
>>
>> Any idea how we can handle this issue?
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
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Re: Issue with PDFs merged in PDFMerger and printing in Acrobat Reader
Posted by "sahyoun@fileaffairs.de" <sa...@fileaffairs.de>.
Hi,
the PDFs didn't make it to the mailing list. Can you upload these to a
public location?
BR
Maruan
Am Donnerstag, dem 16.11.2023 um 11:49 +0100 schrieb Christian
Puritscher:
>
> Hello,
>
> we have an issue with the merged PDF created with the PDFBox
> PDFMerger (problem exists in 2.x and 3.x) in Acrobat Reader (current
> version 2023.006.20380, but also older versions, tested on Windows
> and Mac):
>
> When we merge two (or more) PDFs then the merged PDF seems fine. For
> example when we merge a 2 page PDF and a 4 page PDF the resulting PDF
> is 6 pages long and displays perfectly fine (the used example PDFs
> have been attached to the mail).
>
>
> Also when printing the entire document it works fine.
>
> But when we want to print specific pages, Acrobat Reader only allows
> to set a range spanning the pages of the last document added to the
> merged pdf (so in our example when we added a 2 page PDF and a 4 page
> pdf to a 6 page pdf we now can only choose to print a specific page
> from page 1-4, it does not allow any other input, nor print the
> correct pages):
>
>
> Using a different PDF Viewer (for example the built-in PFD Viewer
> from Firefox) instead of Acrobat Reader it seems to work fine, but we
> can hardly convince our customers to change their default PDF viewer.
>
>
> Any idea how we can handle this issue?
>
> Thanks!
>
>
>
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