PDF printing not always correct

[Siemon Geeroms <si...@globis.be>]

Hi,

We are using pdfbox (latest version 1.8.13) to print pdfs that are generated from another plugin (jasperreports). however, sometimes the orientation of the document changes during printing (see included examples). If we print the PDF with a pdf viewer (fox it reader) the orientation is correct

Can somebody explain me why this happens and how we can prevent this?

I've included some example code and a test pdf we are trying to print as well as the current result when using a pdf printer.

Thanks in advanced for a quick response.

Kind regards,

Siemon Geeroms

Re: PDF printing not always correct

[Tilman Hausherr <TH...@t-online.de>]

See also
https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3117

at the end there is a workaround I tried for the file PDFBOX-3117 
<https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-3117>-1468001565.pdf in 
the issue. You'd have to write your own PDFPageable.java as a copy of 
ours and then use it like in Printing.java

Re: PDF printing not always correct

[Tilman Hausherr <TH...@t-online.de>]

Am 10.01.2017 um 11:20 schrieb Siemon Geeroms:
>
> Hi,
>
> We are using pdfbox (latest version 1.8.13) to print pdfs that are 
> generated from another plugin (jasperreports). however, sometimes the 
> orientation of the document changes during printing (see included 
> examples). If we print the PDF with a pdf viewer (fox it reader) the 
> orientation is correct
>

Please try the 2.0 version, printing was changed. Although there might 
still be problems with label printing. Java sometimes does things on its 
own.

If you don't want to code, you can also try the command line PrintPDF 
utility, it has several options.

https://pdfbox.apache.org/2.0/commandline.html#printpdf

additional to these it has also

   -printerName <name>                  : Print to specific printer
   -orientation auto|portrait|landscape : Print using orientation 
(default: auto)


Tilman