[PDFBOX-3318] IllegalArgumentException in PDPageTree constructor: root cannot be null

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.6, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: PDModel
• Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Reporter: Arul Dhesiaseelan
• Created: 18/Apr/16 03:44
• Updated: 23/May/17 19:54
• Resolved: 01/May/17 16:40

Description

When merging this pdf with another pdf, I get this exception. It looks similar to PDFBOX-2615.

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: root cannot be null
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageTree.<init>(PDPageTree.java:75)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog.getPages(PDDocumentCatalog.java:128)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.PDFMergerUtility.appendDocument(PDFMergerUtility.java:484)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.PDFMergerUtility.mergeDocuments(PDFMergerUtility.java:213)