According to the PDF Reference (ISO 32000), BaseFont is a required field. So where did this PDF come from?
It's possible that the font's FondeDescriptor has a /FontName entry (also required, and required to match BaseName). I suspect Adobe has bullet-proofed their applications to the point where either will suffice. Heck, they could even query the font program directly if it was available. So while I wouldn't go so far as to call it a bug in iText, we certainly could be more durable in the face of malformed PDFs. At the very least, we could throw something more meaningful than an NPE. Ben? Do you have Acrobat 9 Pro? It has a PDF syntax check that would (hopefully) help you reach this sort of conclusion much faster, and wouldn't require you to fold/spindle/mutilate your PDF for public consumption. --Mark Storer Senior Software Engineer Cardiff.com import legalese.Disclaimer; Disclaimer<Cardiff> DisCard = null; > -----Original Message----- > From: Ben Short [mailto:b...@benshort.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, June 16, 2010 3:12 PM > To: Post all your questions about iText here > Subject: Re: [iText-questions] NPE while Extracting text > > On Mark's advice I downloaded the source code from the 5.0.2 branch > and dug a little deeper... > > The NPE is thrown on the following line of the DocumentFont constructor. > > fontName = > PdfName.decodeName(font.getAsName(PdfName.BASEFONT).toString()); > > It turns out that font.getAsName(PdfName.BASEFONT) returns null. > > font, which is a PdfDictionary, has the following values in its hash > map... > > {/FontBBox=[-2, -9, 38, 40], /LastChar=121, /FontMatrix=[0.240000, 0, > 0, 0.240000, 0, 0], /Type=/Font, /Resources=Dictionary, /CharProcs=134 > 0 R, /Encoding=72 0 R, /Subtype=/Type3, /Name=/C0HN2000T1X005000, > /Widths=135 0 R, /FirstChar=32} > > You'll notice that there is no key for /BaseFont. > > I'm not sure I can post the whole pdf to a public news group... I will > see if I can cut it down to a page or so of none sensitive data first. > > Ben > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ThinkGeek and WIRED's GeekDad team up for the Ultimate GeekDad Father's Day Giveaway. ONE MASSIVE PRIZE to the lucky parental unit. See the prize list and enter to win: http://p.sf.net/sfu/thinkgeek-promo _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list iText-questions@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Buy the iText book: http://www.itextpdf.com/book/ 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/
