For example, when some PDF file has uncompressed contents we may import it and apply better compression to the stream objects. Ensure that all the content inside the document is compressed.

Currently, we have the following options for PDF export optimizations:

• ImageQuality
  

  pdfFormatProvider.ExportSettings.ImageQuality = ImageQuality.Low;

• ImageCompression
  

  pdfFormatProvider.ExportSettings.ImageCompression = new ImageFilterTypes[] { ImageFilterTypes.FlateDecode };

• StreamCompression
  

  pdfFormatProvider.ExportSettings.StreamCompression = new StreamFilterTypes[] { StreamFilterTypes.FlateDecode };

• FontEmbeddingType (Q2 2024)
  

  pdfFormatProvider.ExportSettings.FontEmbeddingType = FontEmbeddingType.Subset;

  We introduced an option of exporting subsets of True Type Fonts (*.ttf) for the .NET Standard version of the library.

If a PDF with a TextBoxField is created with a corresponding Widget, the text is actually long enough to be broken in more than one line and AllowScroll is set to true, upon opening the file in Adobe, the text is not visible. The field actually does have an appearance which can be seen upon inspection of the document but for some reason it is not visualized.

Another issue seems to be a different manifestation of the same problem: When the text is long and AllowScroll is false, the text will be visible, but will be misplaced. The issue is caused by the length of the text because the same field with a shorter text that can fit in the widget's rectangle will be displayed correctly. 

When a row has two cells and the content of the first one is large, the width of the second cell results in too small value while measuring and its content remains invisible.

Workaround: Set PreferredWidth to the second cell.

If the MatrixPosition has Matrix (1, 0, 0, 1, 20, 10) the Table should be positioned with top-left coordinate (20, 10). Instead, it is wrongly positioned at (40, 20).

When signing a PDF document with an image using the PdfStreamSigner, the signature is broken. This is the used approach for signing the document: https://www.telerik.com/document-processing-libraries/documentation/libraries/radpdfprocessing/features/digital-signature/pdfstreamsigner

However, instead of using the DrawText method, the DrawImage method is used.

NotImplementedException is thrown for GetCapHeight method of CFFFontSource.

NetStandard: Missing content due to empty glyph outlines in embedded TrueType font subsets.

Workaround 1

Fully embed the fonts in the result PDF document:

PdfFormatProvider pdfFormatProvider = new PdfFormatProvider();
pdfFormatProvider.ExportSettings.FontEmbeddingType = FontEmbeddingType.Full;

Workaround 2

Switch to a .NET Framework project environment and use the .NET Framework PdfProcessing packages.

Corrupted document when exporting "Courier New" subset.

Workaround - fully embed the font:

var pdfFormatProvider = new PdfFormatProvider();
pdfFormatProvider.ExportSettings.FontEmbeddingType = FontEmbeddingType.Full;

NOTE: There are reports for other fonts' subset, e.g. "ZapfDingbats" font.

When importing a document containing an invalid PDF object dictionary key an exception is thrown.

When importing a document with button field with missing type, an error occurs.

51 0 obj
<< /Kids [ 70 0 R 71 0 R 72 0 R 73 0 R 74 0 R 75 0 R 76 0 R 77 0 R 78 0 R 79 0 R 80 0 R 81 0 R 82 0 R 83 0 R 84 0 R 85 0 R 86 0 R 87 0 R 88 0 R 89 0 R 90 0 R 91 0 R 92 0 R 93 0 R 94 0 R 95 0 R 96 0 R 97 0 R 98 0 R 99 0 R 100 0 R 101 0 R 102 0 R 103 0 R 104 0 R 105 0 R 106 0 R 107 0 R 108 0 R 109 0 R 110 0 R 111 0 R 112 0 R 113 0 R 114 0 R 115 0 R 116 0 R 14 0 R ] /T (Button 70) >>
endobj

Workaround: Handle the exception: https://docs.telerik.com/devtools/document-processing/libraries/radpdfprocessing/features/handling-document-exceptions 

As Ghiath reported in the forum thread, I am seeing this same error.

I am using RadFixedDocument and am generating a PdfFormatProvider. As Ghiath mentioned it will work fine (weeks, months) and then it seems the the font file is locked and it cannot export.

System.IO.IOException: I/O error when opening file 'C:\WINDOWS\FONTS\MSYH.TTC'.

System.Web.HttpUnhandledException (0x80004005): Exception of type 'System.Web.HttpUnhandledException' was thrown. ---> System.IO.IOException: I/O error when opening file 'C:\WINDOWS\FONTS\MSYH.TTC'.
   at MS.Internal.FontCache.FileMapping.OpenFile(String fileName)
   at MS.Internal.FontCache.FontSource.GetUnmanagedStream()
   at System.Windows.Media.GlyphTypeface.ComputeSubset(ICollection`1 glyphs)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.Model.Fonts.CidType2Font.ComputeSubset(IEnumerable`1 usedCharacters)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Elements.Fonts.FontStream.CopyPropertiesFromOverride(IPdfExportContext context, FontBase font)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Elements.Fonts.FontStream.CopyPropertiesFrom(IPdfExportContext context, FontBase font)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Elements.Fonts.FontDescriptor.CreateFontFile(IPdfExportContext context, FontBase font)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Elements.Fonts.FontDescriptor.ExportFontFile(IPdfExportContext context, FontBase font)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Elements.Fonts.FontDescriptor.CopyPropertiesFrom(IPdfExportContext context, FontBase font)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Elements.Fonts.CidFontObject.CopyPropertiesFromOverride(IPdfExportContext context, FontBase font)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Elements.Fonts.CidFontObject.CopyPropertiesFrom(IPdfExportContext context, FontBase font)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Elements.Fonts.Type0FontObject.CopyPropertiesFromOverride(IPdfExportContext context, FontBase font)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Export.PdfExporter.WriteFontsFromContext(PdfWriter writer, IPdfExportContext context)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Export.PdfExporter.Export(IRadFixedDocumentExportContext context, Stream output)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.PdfFormatProvider.ExportOverride(RadFixedDocument document, Stream output)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Common.FormatProviders.FormatProviderBase`1.Export(T document, Stream output)
 

It will throw the exception on the line where it is doing the export. The document is typically a multi-page document with images, etc. As I mentioned it might work fine for weeks and then once it fails the only solution is to recycle the web service.

I have a simple program that imports a PDF, calls AcroForm.FlattenFormFields(), and calls Export() on the PdfFormatProvider. I am seeing the following exception during Import() on a signed W9 form a customer has uploaded into our system. Due to the sensitive nature of the document I cannot upload it, but below is the Sig section. I have tried other example signed PDFs which seem to work fine (See attached)

39 0 obj
<< /Type /Annot /Rotate 0 /AP 180 0 R /Rect [ 105.8515 149.2023 289.4443 261.1185
] /Border [ 0 0 0 ] /M (h<D[×¥\001.ƒ¶AB}«\006iÚ¿E@\024_”W±ÔÃ\030ÙL\020"É]a\012Ú6¡0\000¶Žm1@Ž)
/C [ 1 ] /DA (h<D[×¥\001.ƒ¶AB}«\006.\023âø‰\035\005íöu\002ÊÒ½ùwË@—‹måÿڏ[ ‹í!¨\001)
/F 4 /Subtype /Sig >>
endobj

Exception

System.NotSupportedException: 'Import of annotation with type Sig is not supported.'

Stack Trace

at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Elements.Annotations.AnnotationFactory.CreateUnsupportedAnnotationObject(PdfName type)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Converters.TypeAwareConverter`1.CreateInstance(Type type, PostScriptReader reader, IPdfImportContext context, PdfDictionary dictionary)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Converters.Converter.ConvertFromDictionary(Type type, PostScriptReader reader, IPdfImportContext context, PdfDictionary dictionary)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Converters.Converter.Convert(Type type, PostScriptReader reader, IPdfImportContext context, IPdfPrimitive value)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Converters.Converter.Convert(Type type, PostScriptReader reader, IPdfImportContext context, IPdfPrimitive value)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Types.PdfCollectionBase`1.ConvertElementToType[T](PostScriptReader reader, IPdfImportContext context, IPdfPrimitive element)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Types.PdfCollectionBase`1.TryGetElement[T](PostScriptReader reader, IPdfImportContext context, TIndex index, T& element)
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.Model.Elements.DocumentStructure.Page.<>c__DisplayClass21_0.<CopyPageAnnotationsTo>b__0()
   at Telerik.Windows.Documents.Fixed.FormatProviders.Pdf.ExceptionHandling.ExecutionHandler.TryHandleExecution[E](Action operation)