Hi all, I noticed then when using Java 8, PDFs with very large images inside them get rendered extremely slowly. For example rendering this PDF with PDFToImage:
https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ai2-s2-pdfs/979c/aed2e935804a81cd5682a2589614ca54fbe1.pdf Took me 8 seconds with PDFBox 2.0 and Java 7 but 43 seconds when running the identical command with Java 8. The culprit seems to be the method "toRGBImageAWT" in "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.graphics.color.PDColorSpace" which is eating a ton of processing time when using Java 8. This in turn is probably relates to JDK-8041125: https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8041125 My question is: are there any fixes or workarounds that could allow me to process these kinds of PDFs in a reasonable amount of time when using Java 8? Thanks, Chris
