[PDFBOX-5466] Print to PDF printer results in large PDF + text content is not selectable anymore

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Minor
• Resolution: Not A Bug
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.24
• Component/s: Utilities
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Katja Sondermann
• Created: 27/Jun/22 13:18
• Updated: 08/Jul/22 16:22
• Resolved: 08/Jul/22 16:22

Description

When printing a PDF to Pdf Printer, the resulting PDF is much larger than the original (e.g. 140 KB original vs 955 KB printed with PDFBox to a PDF printer), furthermore the text content of the original can no longer be selected in a viewer (e.g. Acrrobat Reader), content seems to be rendered as image.

 

Is there a chance to solve this? 

 

The priting is called with the following code:

int dpi = 600; // tested various values here, also 0

PDDocument document = loadMyPdDocument();
PDFPageable pdfPageable = new PDFPageable(document, Orientation.AUTO, false, dpi);
PrinterJob.getPrinterJob().setPageable(pdfPageable);

Issue Links

• relates to: PDFBOX-5093 Pass PDFRenderer to PDFPrintable constructor