[PDFBOX-4223] PDFMergerUtility: java.io.IOException: Error: can't convert to Destination COSArray{[COSName{XYZ}]}

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.9
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.10, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Utilities
• Environment: Ubuntu 14.04 and Windows 7
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Eduard von Feek
• Created: 16/May/18 13:50
• Updated: 21/Jun/18 20:27
• Resolved: 17/May/18 21:51

Description

Given a problematic PDF, there can be an IOException when merging two PDFs, causing the merge to fail.

Problematic example PDF: http://www.ecpol.econ.uni-muenchen.de/downloads/wipo2/wise09_10/uebung/dusonmevenroeller.pdf

 

Provoking command line:

java -jar pdfbox-app-2.0.9.jar PDFMerger dusonmevenroeller.pdf dusonmevenroeller.pdf out.pdf

 

Stacktrace:

Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Error: can't convert to Destination COSArray{[COSName{XYZ}]}
 at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.documentnavigation.destination.PDDestination.create(PDDestination.java:98)
 at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog.getOpenAction(PDDocumentCatalog.java:275)
 at org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.PDFMergerUtility.appendDocument(PDFMergerUtility.java:348)
 at org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.PDFMergerUtility.mergeDocuments(PDFMergerUtility.java:263)
 at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFMerger.merge(PDFMerger.java:70)
 at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFMerger.main(PDFMerger.java:49)
 at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFBox.main(PDFBox.java:81)

Issue Links

• relates to: PDFBOX-4204 Problem when merging PDF 1.4 and PDF 1.1 Documents