[PDFBOX-3026] Acrobat Reader 7.0 cannot open created files

• Type: Bug
• Status: Open
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Unresolved
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.0
• Component/s: Writing
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Kevin Ternes
• Created: 14/Oct/15 21:57
• Updated: 20/Oct/15 16:00

Description

Note: This issue is not observed with PDFBox 1.8.10.
Note: This is observed with recent 2.0.0 builds including 2.0.0-20151013.171100-1760

A file created by PDFBox can be opened by Reader X and XI. But it cannot be opened by Reader 7.

For instance, given a file, load.pdf, which can be opened by Reader 7, run the following:

public class PDFBoxRunLoadSave {
  public static void main(String[] args) {
    PDDocument pdDocument = null;
    try {
		pdDocument = PDDocument.load(new File("load.pdf"));
		pdDocument.save("save.pdf");
    } catch (Exception ex) {
		System.err.println("Caught " + ex);
		ex.printStackTrace();
    } finally {
		try { pdDocument.close(); } catch (Exception ex) {
			System.out.println("Closing, caught " + ex);
		}
    }
  }
}

The file, save.pdf, will be generated which can be opened by Reader X but Reader 7 will respond with a popup message, "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired." (See attached screenshot).

This is consistently observed testing with a large number of sample files on 3 Windows 7 SP1 64-bit workstations and 1 Windows 10 workstation.