[PDFBOX-5577] NPE in PDFMergerUtility.acroFormLegacyMode()

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Affects Version/s: 2.0.27
• Fix Version/s: 2.0.28, 3.0.0 PDFBox
• Component/s: Utilities
• Assignee: Tilman Hausherr
• Reporter: Tilman Hausherr
• Created: 22/Mar/23 04:31
• Updated: 13/Apr/23 14:54
• Resolved: 22/Mar/23 07:04

Description

reported by Chris E in the dev mailing list

Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NullPointerException
        at org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.PDFMergerUtility.acroFormLegacyMode(PDFMergerUtility.java:1451)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.PDFMergerUtility.mergeAcroForm(PDFMergerUtility.java:1262)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.PDFMergerUtility.appendDocument(PDFMergerUtility.java:576)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.PDFMergerUtility.legacyMergeDocuments(PDFMergerUtility.java:461)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.multipdf.PDFMergerUtility.mergeDocuments(PDFMergerUtility.java:347)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFMerger.merge(PDFMerger.java:70)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFMerger.main(PDFMerger.java:49)
        at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFBox.main(PDFBox.java:81)