Here is a much smaller pdf file (also produced by Mac OS X 10.6.8 Quartz
PDFContext) that seems to elicit the same behaviour from pdftk:
$ pdftk test.pdf burst
Unhandled Java Exception:
Unhandled Java Exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException
at gnu.gcj.runtime.NameFinder.lookup(libgcj.so.12)
at java.lang.VMThrowable.getStackTrace(libgcj.so.12)
at java.lang.Throwable.getStackTrace(libgcj.so.12)
at java.lang.Throwable.stackTraceString(libgcj.so.12)
at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(libgcj.so.12)
at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(libgcj.so.12)
On the other hand, gs doesn't appear to think anything is wrong with it:
$ gs -o nul -sDEVICE=nullpage test.pdf
GPL Ghostscript 9.05 (2012-02-08)
Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved.
This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details.
Processing pages 1 through 1.
Page 1
Version information:
$ apt-cache policy pdftk ghostscript
pdftk:
Installed: 1.44-4build1
Candidate: 1.44-4build1
Version table:
*** 1.44-4build1 0
500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/universe i386 Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
ghostscript:
Installed: 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.2
Candidate: 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.2
Version table:
*** 9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4.2 0
500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise-updates/main i386
Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
9.05~dfsg-0ubuntu4 0
500 http://ie.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ precise/main i386 Packages
** Attachment added: "test.pdf"
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/pdftk/+bug/972340/+attachment/3449190/+files/test.pdf
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