[PDFBOX-455] java.lang.ClassCastException: org.pdfbox.cos.COSString cannot be cast to org.pdfbox.cos.COSName

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 0.7.3
• Fix Version/s: 0.8.0-incubator
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Sean Bridges
• Created: 22/Apr/09 18:38
• Updated: 21/Oct/09 09:52
• Resolved: 03/Jul/09 14:49

Description

I'm getting this error parsing a pdf file,

java.lang.ClassCastException: org.pdfbox.cos.COSString cannot be cast to org.pdfbox.cos.COSName
at org.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.getAFM(PDFont.java:330)
at org.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDSimpleFont.getFontHeight(PDSimpleFont.java:104)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.showString(PDFStreamEngine.java:336)
at org.pdfbox.util.operator.ShowText.process(ShowText.java:64)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:452)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processSubStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:215)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:174)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPage(PDFTextStripper.java:336)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.processPages(PDFTextStripper.java:259)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.writeText(PDFTextStripper.java:216)
at org.pdfbox.util.PDFTextStripper.getText(PDFTextStripper.java:149)

Unfortunately, I can't give you the pdf file, but the PDFFont->font->items map for the instance in question is,

{COSName

{FontDescriptor}

=org.pdfbox.cos.COSDictionary@1041876, COSName

{Subtype}

=COSName

{TrueType}

, COSName

{Widths}

=COSArray{[COSInt

{600}, COSInt{600}

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{Font}

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=COSString

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