[PDFBOX-5555] NPE due to a malformed rectangle

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.26, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.28, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Rendering
• Assignee: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Reporter: Andreas Lehmkühler
• Created: 31/Dec/22 11:56
• Updated: 13/Apr/23 14:54
• Resolved: 31/Dec/22 12:01

Description

The following exception occurs when rendering file from PDFBOX-5178

Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException: Cannot invoke "org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.common.PDRectangle.getLowerLeftX()" because "bbox" is null
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation.handlers.PDAbstractAppearanceHandler.setTransformationMatrix(PDAbstractAppearanceHandler.java:504)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation.handlers.PDAbstractAppearanceHandler.getAppearanceEntryAsContentStream(PDAbstractAppearanceHandler.java:487)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation.handlers.PDAbstractAppearanceHandler.getNormalAppearanceAsContentStream(PDAbstractAppearanceHandler.java:149)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation.handlers.PDAbstractAppearanceHandler.getNormalAppearanceAsContentStream(PDAbstractAppearanceHandler.java:132)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation.handlers.PDFileAttachmentAppearanceHandler.generateNormalAppearance(PDFileAttachmentAppearanceHandler.java:64)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation.handlers.PDFileAttachmentAppearanceHandler.generateAppearanceStreams(PDFileAttachmentAppearanceHandler.java:51)
    org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.interactive.annotation.PDAnnotationMarkup.constructAppearances(PDAnnotationMarkup.java:902)
    org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.PageDrawer.showAnnotation(PageDrawer.java:1511)
    org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.PageDrawer.drawPage(PageDrawer.java:283)
    org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.PDFRenderer.renderImage(PDFRenderer.java:355)
    org.apache.pdfbox.debugger.pagepane.PagePane$RenderWorker.doInBackground(PagePane.java:453)
    org.apache.pdfbox.debugger.pagepane.PagePane$RenderWorker.doInBackground(PagePane.java:435)
    java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:833)

 

The issue was introduced with PDFBOX-5394 and happens due to an malformed rectangle (an array of 3 instead of 4 values)