[PDFBOX-3979] NullPointerException on Type1Parser.readCharStrings(Type1Parser.java:713)

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.6, 2.0.7
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.8, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: FontBox, Parsing
• Labels: type1 type1font
• Environment: Java 8 on Ubuntu Linux
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Jay Askren
• Created: 25/Oct/17 20:17
• Updated: 02/Nov/17 21:00
• Resolved: 25/Oct/17 22:10

Description

When trying to open the attached file with PDFBox, I get a null pointer exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.apache.fontbox.type1.Type1Parser.readCharStrings(Type1Parser.java:713)
at org.apache.fontbox.type1.Type1Parser.parseBinary(Type1Parser.java:576)
at org.apache.fontbox.type1.Type1Parser.parse(Type1Parser.java:64)
at org.apache.fontbox.type1.Type1Font.createWithSegments(Type1Font.java:85)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType1Font.<init>(PDType1Font.java:262)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFontFactory.createFont(PDFontFactory.java:62)
at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDResources.getFont(PDResources.java:143)
at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.operator.text.SetFontAndSize.process(SetFontAndSize.java:60)
at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:838)
at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processStreamOperators(PDFStreamEngine.java:495)
at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:469)
at org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processPage(PDFStreamEngine.java:150)
at org.apache.pdfbox.text.LegacyPDFStreamEngine.processPage(LegacyPDFStreamEngine.java:139)
at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.processPage(PDFTextStripper.java:391)
at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.processPages(PDFTextStripper.java:319)
at org.apache.pdfbox.text.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:266)