Hi Thomas, Try the patch from https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-988
this may be the same issue of a font not having enough glyphs, and making the g2d.drawString crash or hang let us know if it helps -Craig -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Haselwanter (JIRA) [mailto:j...@apache.org] Sent: Monday, 30 May 2011 3:18 PM To: dev@pdfbox.apache.org Subject: [jira] [Updated] (PDFBOX-1019) PDF conversion to image crashes the JVM [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1019?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ] Thomas Haselwanter updated PDFBOX-1019: --------------------------------------- Attachment: thumb.png > PDF conversion to image crashes the JVM > --------------------------------------- > > Key: PDFBOX-1019 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1019 > Project: PDFBox > Issue Type: Bug > Components: PDModel > Affects Versions: 1.5.0 > Environment: Linux Ubuntu, Mac OSX > Reporter: Petr Knoth > Priority: Blocker > Attachments: thumb.png > > > The file http://tie.open.ac.uk/256.pdf crashes the JVM during conversion to > jpeg with the following message : > Assertion failed: (fnum >= 0 && fnum < t->numSubrs), function BuildSubrs, > file ../../../src/share/native/sun/font/t2k/t1.c, line 3098. > Java Result: 134 > The error happens in the method convertToImage(): > PDPage page = (PDPage) pages.get(startPage); > PDPage page = (PDPage) pages.get(0); > try { > image = page.convertToImage(); > } catch (IOException ex) { > Logger.getLogger(PdfIText.class.getName()).log(Level.SEVERE, > null, ex); > } > The problem occurs not for all files, but is critical as it stops my > webserver (Tomcat) that needs to be then restarted. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. For more information on JIRA, see: http://www.atlassian.com/software/jira