[PDFBOX-5042] IllegalArgumentException when generation of appearances fails

• 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 16:01
• Updated: 20/Dec/20 18:47
• Resolved: 11/Dec/20 21:48

Description

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: No glyph for U+0041 (A) in font BZZZZZ+Aladin-Regular
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDCIDFontType2.encode(PDCIDFontType2.java:372)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDType0Font.encode(PDType0Font.java:422)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.encode(PDFont.java:332)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFont.getStringWidth(PDFont.java:363)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.calculateFontSize(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:859)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.insertGeneratedAppearance(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:494)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceContent(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:422)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.AppearanceGeneratorHelper.setAppearanceValue(AppearanceGeneratorHelper.java:232)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDTextField.constructAppearances(PDTextField.java:264)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.form.PDAcroForm.refreshAppearances(PDAcroForm.java:327)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.fixup.processor.AcroFormGenerateAppearancesProcessor.process(AcroFormGenerateAppearancesProcessor.java:54)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.fixup.AcroFormDefaultFixup.apply(AcroFormDefaultFixup.java:56)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog.getAcroForm(PDDocumentCatalog.java:132)
	at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocumentCatalog.getAcroForm(PDDocumentCatalog.java:113)
	at org.apache.tika.parser.pdf.PDFParser.extractMetadata(PDFParser.java:267)

It happens with several files, among them the two AML files of PDFBOX-4086.

I'm not sure if it is a bug - should we catch it? Or ignore it? Or try to generate the fields that work?

Issue Links

• relates to: TIKA-3246 IllegalArgumentException when generation of appearances fails