[PDFBOX-1650] Merging PDF results in „java.io.IOException: expected='>' actual='3'”

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.3
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Gerhard Temper
• Created: 25/Jun/13 10:10
• Updated: 02/Dec/13 13:06
• Resolved: 02/Dec/13 13:06

Description

Merging attached files twice via PDFMerger results in the following exception:

• java -jar pdfbox-app-1.8.2.jar PDFMerger specialpdf.pdf otherpdf.pdf tmp.pdf (OK)

• java -jar pdfbox-app-1.8.2.jar PDFMerger tmp.pdf otherpdf.pdf out.pdf (Exception)

java.io.IOException: expected='>' actual='3'
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.parseCOSDictionary(BaseParser.java:384)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.parseDirObject(BaseParser.java:1236)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parseObject(PDFParser.java:559)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.PDFParser.parse(PDFParser.java:188)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:1192)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument.load(PDDocument.java:1159)
at org.apache.pdfbox.util.PDFMergerUtility.mergeDocuments(PDFMergerUtility.java:181)
at org.apache.pdfbox.PDFMerger.merge(PDFMerger.java:68)
at org.apache.pdfbox.PDFMerger.main(PDFMerger.java:44)
at org.apache.pdfbox.PDFBox.main(PDFBox.java:83)