Hello, (Edit: We are using Aspose.PDF.DLL version 10.9.0.0, the problem persists with Aspose.PDF version 11.3.0.0.)
We use Aspose to shrink documents slightly to add a custom footer to uniquely identify each page of a PDF document. For most documents we simply call ResizeContents to shrink by 6% and that does the job.
We have a customer with a scanner (Xerox copier?) that generates documents that do not seem to work with Aspose, at least not with ResizeContents. Instead of shrinking the content, the document becomes blank. I can add a footer to the document okay, but the original content appears to have vanished. I attached a file that should become blank when running the example code follows at the end of this post.
This seems to be a bug in Aspose.PDF. If not, are we using ResizeContents incorrectly.
Is there another/better way to accomplish shrinking the contents of pages to leave room for a small footer while leaving the page 8.5"x11"? Or can you suggest fast transformation that would prevent the blank page but preserve actual text/images/etc. that are there for most documents? (I can convert to Word and back to PDF and that fixes the problem, but that takes maybe 5-10 times longer and can lose information. One user has 10,000+ page documents they regularly process and they already are complaining about the speed.)
If it is a bug, can you suggest code to detect there will be a problem? If so I could launch the slow conversion code only for documents that would end up blank otherwise.
If it is a bug, can you suggest code to detect there will be a problem? If so I could launch the slow conversion code only for documents that would end up blank otherwise.
Typical documents are much larger and proprietary. Here is a simple one page document that demonstrates the problem. It is not original, I extracted the page with Aspose and it seems to still have the problem (but the info changed), the original info was this:
[“Creator”] “Network ScanGear Ver.2.01”
[“Producer”] “PDFScanLib v1.2.2 in Adobe Acrobat 7.1”
[“ModDate”] “D:20160204084527-07’00’”
[“CreationDate”] “D:20160204084459-07’00’”
We have more steps after this to add the footer, but to generate the “blank” document just do the following (this results in a 6% smaller document with most other files we have tested until this scanner):
Dim testKludgeDir As String = "c:\test"
Dim PDFDocument As Aspose.Pdf.Document = Nothing
Try
'Create PdfFileEditor Object
Dim fileEditor As New PdfFileEditor()
Try
'Open PDF Document
PDFDocument = New Aspose.Pdf.Document(Trim(filePath).ToString())
'Shrink 6%
Dim shrinkPercentage As Integer = 6
Dim shrinkParameters As New PdfFileEditor.ContentsResizeParameters(PdfFileEditor.ContentsResizeValue.Percents(shrinkPercentage),
Nothing,
PdfFileEditor.ContentsResizeValue.Percents(shrinkPercentage),
PdfFileEditor.ContentsResizeValue.Percents(shrinkPercentage),
Nothing,
PdfFileEditor.ContentsResizeValue.Percents(shrinkPercentage))
Dim pageIndexes(PDFDocument.Pages.Count - 1) As Integer
For index As Integer = 0 To PDFDocument.Pages.Count - 1
pageIndexes(index) = index + 1
Next
'Saving the file here will still have a non-blank document
'This line seems to make it blank, I’ve tried a variety of versions of this with different percentages, they all seem to end up blank.
fileEditor.ResizeContents(PDFDocument, pageIndexes, shrinkParameters)
saveShrinkPDFPath = Path.Combine(testKludgeDir, Trim(fileObject.FileID).ToString() + “_ResizeContents.pdf”)
PDFDocument.Save(saveShrinkPDFPath) 'File saved here appears to be blank.
PDFDocument.Dispose()
PDFDocument = Nothing
Catch ex As Exception
'No exception is thrown.
End Try