[PDFBOX-3701] NullPointerException at PDPageContentStream.getName when setting Text Value

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Duplicate
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.3, 2.0.4
• Component/s: AcroForm
• Environment: Linux
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Dave Carswell
• Created: 23/Feb/17 21:33
• Updated: 28/Feb/17 19:24
• Resolved: 28/Feb/17 19:22

Description

Trying to set text input value. Works in almost all cases without a problem, but on some forms I get the following error:

java.lang.NullPointerException: null
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream.getName(PDPageContentStream.java:964) ~[pdfbox-2.0.3.jar:2.0.3]
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDPageContentStream.setNonStrokingColor(PDPageContentStream.java:1172) ~[pdfbox-2.0.3.jar:2.0.3]
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.initializeAppearanceContent(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:211) ~[pdfbox-2.0.3.jar:2.0.3]
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:167) ~[pdfbox-2.0.3.jar:2.0.3]
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.constructAppearances(PDTextField.java:263) ~[pdfbox-2.0.3.jar:2.0.3]
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTerminalField.applyChange(PDTerminalField.java:228) ~[pdfbox-2.0.3.jar:2.0.3]
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.setValue(PDTextField.java:218) ~[pdfbox-2.0.3.jar:2.0.3]

Issue Links

• is duplicated by: PDFBOX-3638 NullPointerException when setting form field value