[PDFBOX-2004] PDF2Image hangs/loops forever processing PDF

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 1.8.4
• Fix Version/s: 1.8.5
• Component/s: Rendering
• Environment: Windows 7 x64, Java 7.0 and Oracle Linux, Java 6
• Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Reporter: Ed Sawdon
• Created: 27/Mar/14 16:55
• Updated: 17/Apr/14 08:10
• Resolved: 17/Apr/14 08:06

Description

When the attached PDF file is rendered to a JPG image it causes PDFBox to loop forever.

The problem is easily produced using the PDFBox example org.apache.pdfbox.PDF2Image with the following command line options:-

imageType jpg -outputPrefix OUT Hang.pdf

The fault is new to 1.8.4. As a workaround, we are using 1.8.3 which does not suffer.
We have found many such files and have identified this one as I can share it publicly.

Issue Links

• duplicates: PDFBOX-1917 Rendering hangs