[PDFBOX-2245] java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException in PDTrueTypeFont.getGIDForCharacterCode

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Parsing
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 26/Jul/14 19:09
• Updated: 17/Mar/16 19:07
• Resolved: 26/Jul/14 19:13

Description

I get this exception with the attached file:

java.lang.StringIndexOutOfBoundsException: String index out of range: 0
        at java.lang.String.codePointAt(Unknown Source)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.getGIDForCharacterCode(PDTrueTypeFont.java:452)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.font.TTFGlyph2D.getGIDForCharacterCode(TTFGlyph2D.java:178)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.font.TTFGlyph2D.getPathForCharacterCode(TTFGlyph2D.java:150)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.PageDrawer.drawGlyph2D(PageDrawer.java:354)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.PageDrawer.processGlyph(PageDrawer.java:325)

The cause is that Encoding.getCharacterForName(characterName) returns an empty string. This is because characterName is ".notdef". Adobe Reader displays a gap. This can be seen at "Alumni Weekend" and "health professions". A copy & paste into an editor shows that Adobe returns a hex 1 code. My change ignores the wrong code, outputs an error message and the file renders like in adobe reader.