Hello! I'm afraid I stumbled on a bug.
I have to add an an annotation to a page in an existing PDF in append mode; the /Contents array of that page happens to contain a reference to the same stream twice: 4 0 obj << /Type /Page [...] /Contents [36 0 R 36 0 R 35 0 R 77 0 R] >> endobj Therefore, I create a PdfReader reading that file. This implies a readPdf() call which in turn after reading the PDF objects into internal structures calls eliminateSharedStreams(). eliminateSharedStreams() finds that very page and changes its internal representation of the /Contents array to /Contents [36 0 R 96 0 R 35 0 R 77 0 R] (96 being the first free object number) and adds an object 96 0 to its internal structures. Ok, after creating the PdfReader I create the PdfStamper in append mode and add the annotation to that very page. This especially has the effect that the page dictionary object 4 0 obj is internally marked as used in the PdfStamper; the object 96 0 obj is not, though. Thus, when closing the PdfStamper the resulting PDF contains a manipulated page dictionary object 4 0 obj whose /Contents array references the object 96 0 obj which unfortunately did not make it into the resulting PDF. The resulting PDF therefore is broken. Unfortunately I'm not permitted to post that PDF here. I'll try and create an example PDF soon. Regards, Michael. -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/Problem-with-PdfReader.eliminateSharedStreams%28%29-in-concert-with-appending-PdfStamper-tp26734822p26734822.html Sent from the iText - General mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Return on Information: Google Enterprise Search pays you back Get the facts. http://p.sf.net/sfu/google-dev2dev _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Check the site with examples before you ask questions: http://www.1t3xt.info/examples/ You can also search the keywords list: http://1t3xt.info/tutorials/keywords/
