[PDFBOX-1714] Merging PDFs results in java.io.IOException: expected='R' actual='0'

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.2
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.3, 2.0.0
• Component/s: PDModel
• Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Reporter: Gerhard Temper
• Created: 05/Sep/13 06:25
• Updated: 30/Nov/13 17:02
• Resolved: 23/Nov/13 14:24

Description

Merging attached files results in a PDF which isn't processable by PDFBox.
Merging or editing the resulting PDF results in an exception: java.io.IOException: expected='R' actual='0'

D:\pdfboxtest>java -jar pdfbox-app-1.8.2.jar PDFMerger doc1.pdf doc2.pdf result.pdf

D:\pdfboxtest>java -jar pdfbox-app-1.8.2.jar PDFMerger result.pdf doc2.pdf result2.pdf

Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Invalid dictionary, found: 'e' but expected: '/'
Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Bad Dictionary Declaration org.apache.pdfbox.io.PushBackInputStream@7a4b35d5
Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Invalid dictionary, found: 'e' but expected: '/'
Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Invalid dictionary, found: 'e' but expected: '/'
Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Bad Dictionary Declaration org.apache.pdfbox.io.PushBackInputStream@7a4b35d5
Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Invalid dictionary, found: 'e' but expected: '/'
Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Bad Dictionary Declaration org.apache.pdfbox.io.PushBackInputStream@7a4b35d5
Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Invalid dictionary, found: 'e' but expected: '/'
Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Bad Dictionary Declaration org.apache.pdfbox.io.PushBackInputStream@7a4b35d5
Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Invalid dictionary, found: 'e' but expected: '/'
Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Bad Dictionary Declaration org.apache.pdfbox.io.PushBackInputStream@7a4b35d5
Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Invalid dictionary, found: 'e' but expected: '/'
Sep 05, 2013 8:18:48 AM org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser parseCOSDictionary
WARNING: Invalid dictionary, found: 'e' but expected: '/'
PDFMerger failed with the following exception:
java.io.IOException: expected='R' actual='0' org.apache.pdfbox.io.PushBackInputStream@7a4b35d5
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.parseCOSDictionaryValue(BaseParser.java:233)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdfparser.BaseParser.parseCOSDictionary(BaseParser.java:349)
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)

Issue Links

• depends upon: PDFBOX-1780 previous revision is damaged after signing