If the input document was originally rendered with no smoothing or antialiasing of any kind, you are essentially starting with a lot of glyphs that all have extremely rough edges, being rendered with nothing but black or white squares. If this is... Read More

The core Adobe PDF Library C++ interface can be used to rasterize a PDF page to a memory buffer via the PDPageDrawContentsToMemory*() APIs. The user application can then convert that to a PDEImage and export to the desired image format (TIF, JPG, etc... Read More

Dynamic XFA PDF forms contain backup placeholder content in addition to the XFA data describing the fields and content of the form. The placeholder content can vary but is typically a warning to upgrade or use Adobe Reader.  When a dynamic XFA PDF... Read More

You can draw objects from a PDF document to a window in a specific order. You could draw out of the text stream first, then a graphic, and then a vector image. For example, you might want to render the text objects in a PDF document, and leave out... Read More

When rendering via the PDPageDrawContentsToMemory* APIs, specify 1 BPC (Bits per Component) instead of 8 BPC when using DeviceGray as the csAtom. A component here refers to a color channel; Gray has one, RGB has three (red, green, blue), and CMYK has... Read More