[PDFBOX-4942] Printing PDF hangs and document is never printed

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Critical
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.21
• Labels: print printing
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Jon Ominsky
• Created: 25/Aug/20 18:05
• Updated: 27/Aug/20 06:20
• Resolved: 27/Aug/20 06:20

Description

We have an integration that simply prints PDFs. The PDF attached never prints and clogs up the print queue - just ends up spooling for very long periods of time. Code in question that is in use with the latest version of PDFBox:

    PrintService service = getPrintService(printerName);
    DocPrintJob printJob = service.createPrintJob();    PrintRequestAttributeSet attrSet = new HashPrintRequestAttributeSet();
    attrSet.add(new JobName(fileName, null));
    attrSet.add(new Copies(1));    
    try (PDDocument pdf = PDDocument.load(file)) {
      PDFPageable pageable = new PDFPageable(pdf);
      Doc doc = new SimpleDoc(pageable, DocFlavor.SERVICE_FORMATTED.PAGEABLE, null);
      printJob.print(doc, attrSet);      return new PdfPrintResult(pdf.getNumberOfPages());
    } catch (IOException | PrintException e) {
      throw new ControlledPrintException("Unable to print file " + fileName + ".", e);
    } 

This occurs trying to print to a physical printer as well as to a PDF Printer, e.g., PDFCreator. I am able to open the PDF in the PDFDebugger and view it, but cannot determine what is causing the issue.

Issue Links

• duplicates: PDFBOX-3046 Specific PDF prints really (REALLY) slow