The pdf reference says that the file can have 1024 bytes of garbage before and
after the pdf. If you expect more you'll have to trim yourself the file.
Paulo
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Gerrit Germis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 07, 2008 11:40 AM
> To: Post all your questions about iText here
> Subject: Re: [iText-questions] itext 1.4.2 sporadic exceptions
>
> Hi Paulo,
>
> Thanks for the reply. It turns out that in some example PDF files I am
> using, there is an XML snippet at the bottom of the file (2259 bytes
> long), and iText tries to read "startxref" from the last 1024 bytes,
> but fails and therefore does a reader.rebuiltdXref(). Not sure if that
> XML snippet (some metadata about the document) at the end is legal.
> The PDF is received as such from our customers.
>
> Sincerely,
> Gerrit
>
> On Tue, Oct 7, 2008 at 11:07 AM, Paulo Soares
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Look at PdfReader.isRebuilt() to look for errors. To sign
> in append mode this must return false.
> >
> > Paulo
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