[PDFBOX-4880] NullPointerException in TrueTypeEmbedder.createFontDescriptor() with OCR-B font

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.20
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.21, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 14/Jun/20 07:54
• Updated: 21/Aug/20 04:54
• Resolved: 14/Jun/20 08:40

Description

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.TrueTypeEmbedder.createFontDescriptor(TrueTypeEmbedder.java:190)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.TrueTypeEmbedder.<init>(TrueTypeEmbedder.java:83)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDCIDFontType2Embedder.<init>(PDCIDFontType2Embedder.java:76)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType0Font.<init>(PDType0Font.java:220)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType0Font.load(PDType0Font.java:67)

when loading the font at
https://www.dafontfree.net/freefonts-ocrb-f151774.htm

The font has no os2 table. We should throw an IOException instead.