Correction.... To be able to represent this visually, I've taken the following picture of a rendering done using each approach and sent to the XPS Document writer: ** *http://i.imgur.com/nBaaJoP.png *(i had incorrectly marked each rendering)*
- [email protected] On Fri, Jan 8, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Tres Finocchiaro < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to determine the best way to achieve high resolution PDF > printing with PDFBOX 2.0. > > Our programmer recently wrote some logic to use PDFPrintable but I noticed > the fonts were rasterized, so I started converting the code to use > PDFPageable instead (since we had upgraded from a system which used > silentPrint()). However, I'm having mixed results. > > What I've found is: > > > - When DPI (such as 600dpi) is provided as a parameter to PDFPageable, > the images render much nicer, but the fonts get rasterized. > - Rasterizing the fonts seems to make the print job much, much > larger. > - Rasterizing the fonts is observable at a high zoom factor (not > observable to the naked eye). > - When the default DPI is provided (AFAIK, Zero, or simply omitted), > the images render quite grainy, but the fonts appear vector. > > To be able to represent this visually, I've taken the following picture of > a rendering done using each approach and sent to the XPS Document writer: > > http://i.imgur.com/JlTpGht.png > > The PDF we're using is available for preview and download here: > > https://github.com/qzind/qz-print/blob/2.0/assets/pdf_sample.pdf > > So the question is, why does a higher DPI have a negative effect on > rendering? Are we not using this improperly? Thanks in advance! > > -Tres > > > > - [email protected] >
