[PDFBOX-5041] NullPointerException in AppearanceGeneratorHelper.insertGeneratedAppearance

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.22
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.22, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: AcroForm
• Labels: Appearance
• Assignee: Maruan Sahyoun
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 11/Dec/20 14:28
• Updated: 20/Dec/20 18:48
• Resolved: 11/Dec/20 21:48

Description

java.lang.NullPointerException: null
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.insertGeneratedAppearance(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:505)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceContent(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:414)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:232)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.constructAppearances(PDTextField.java:262)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm.refreshAppearances(PDAcroForm.java:327)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.fixup.processor.AcroFormGenerateAppearancesProcessor.process(AcroFormGenerateAppearancesProcessor.java:52)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.fixup.AcroFormDefaultFixup.apply(AcroFormDefaultFixup.java:56)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog.getAcroForm(PDDocumentCatalog.java:132)

That's because font.getFontDescriptor() is null