merging will change the looks dramatically

[mario_pdf]

Hi all,
I need to merge some PDF forms with PDFMeld. I installed the test GUI version and merged one of your sample PDFs with the sample form PDF I downloaded from here:
http://www.quask.com/survey/applications_pdfforms.asp
(the pink winery example: http://www.quask.com/samples/pdfforms/winery.pdf)

The generated result looks quite bad, I'd say. Is there some command line option I could use (or actually a DLL option as I will use PDFMeld as a DLL) to change this?

Before you ask no, I don't have yet a sample PDF form as we will use internally, I'm just laying it out for them...

Thanks a lot,
M

[pgorney]

(12-14-2009 09:51 AM)mario_pdf Wrote:  Hi all,
I need to merge some PDF forms with PDFMeld. I installed the test GUI version and merged one of your sample PDFs with the sample form PDF I downloaded from here:
http://www.quask.com/survey/applications_pdfforms.asp
(the pink winery example: http://www.quask.com/samples/pdfforms/winery.pdf)

The generated result looks quite bad, I'd say. Is there some command line option I could use (or actually a DLL option as I will use PDFMeld as a DLL) to change this?

Before you ask no, I don't have yet a sample PDF form as we will use internally, I'm just laying it out for them...

Thanks a lot,
M

The second link didn't work.. I downloaded the pdf and "appended" the winery pdf with it and it seem to look the same. You did not indicate what you did when you said "merge"..overlay, append ?

Send the resulting pdf file you created for us to take a look at.

Regards,

Pat Gorney
pgorney@fytek.com

[mario_pdf]

(12-14-2009 10:42 AM)pgorney Wrote:  The second link didn't work.. I downloaded the pdf and "appended" the winery pdf with it and it seem to look the same. You did not indicate what you did when you said "merge"..overlay, append ?

Send the resulting pdf file you created for us to take a look at.

Hi Pat,

Thanks a lot for the quick answer and sorry for being unclear. I attached here a test PDF created like this:
- I downloaded the PDF Meld VB frontend,
- started it
- I added that winery PDF saved locally,
- and pressed "merge" - whatever that means.
By comparing the original PDF and the output PDF which were expected to be be quite the same (no other merging) they look visually striking different.

I must add that I also installed the PDF Meld test application which I notice now says version 9 (maybe it broke the 10 DLL?) and my "normal" program which I want to upgrade uses a version 8 DLL. However I checked (ProcessExplorer) that the only DLL loaded is the right one version 10 and it's also in windows/system32 and properly registered (reran regsvr32 just in case)

Thank you,
M

[pgorney]

(12-14-2009 11:08 AM)mario_pdf Wrote:  

(12-14-2009 10:42 AM)pgorney Wrote:  The second link didn't work.. I downloaded the pdf and "appended" the winery pdf with it and it seem to look the same. You did not indicate what you did when you said "merge"..overlay, append ?

Send the resulting pdf file you created for us to take a look at.

Hi Pat,

Thanks a lot for the quick answer and sorry for being unclear. I attached here a test PDF created like this:
- I downloaded the PDF Meld VB frontend,
- started it
- I added that winery PDF saved locally,
- and pressed "merge" - whatever that means.
By comparing the original PDF and the output PDF which were expected to be be quite the same (no other merging) they look visually striking different.

I must add that I also installed the PDF Meld test application which I notice now says version 9 (maybe it broke the 10 DLL?) and my "normal" program which I want to upgrade uses a version 8 DLL. However I checked (ProcessExplorer) that the only DLL loaded is the right one version 10 and it's also in windows/system32 and properly registered (reran regsvr32 just in case)

Thank you,
M

I ran it and there there no differences.. I tried to follow as how many different programs you have loaded and am confused. Try uninstalling all the different programs you have and just use one program and run it.

[mario_pdf]

(12-14-2009 12:05 PM)pgorney Wrote:  I ran it and there there no differences.. I tried to follow as how many different programs you have loaded and am confused. Try uninstalling all the different programs you have and just use one program and run it.

I reproduced my test on two completely new and clean machines where no PDF Meld was ever installed: one Windows XP SP3 and one Windows Server 2003 SP2. I installed PDF Meld the first developer version on your page: the Windows 32-bit exe 10.1. I loaded only the winery.pdf from this GUI, gave an output file and pressed "Build". I went into settings and switched also from Merge to Overlay and retried a couple of times.

Point is: the result was all the time EXACTLY the same, wrong. I don't need to attach again the output file as it looks the same as my first attachment. The first test was on XP SP2 with PDFMeld 10.0. I use everywhere Acrobat Reader 9.2 to see the results.

After I did 3 tests on 3 different machines I would say it's pretty obvious you didn't do it the same way or on the same platform or there's some essential detail that you do and I don't. As your output looks fine there's hope that we can get this difference sorted out.

[mario_pdf]

Hi, any suggestion here?