Hi Folks,
I have an issue with a number of PDF files (created using ABBYY pro 11)
that have the 'Type' attribute missing in the Font dictionary. The PDF
reference (v1.7) indicates that this is a mandatory field that must be
set to 'Font' however in these files it is just not present - I have
gone back to the software provider to enquire about a fix.
In the meantime, whenever PDFontFactory.createFont(COSDictionary)
attempts to instantiate a font it falls over as it doesn't check type
for null before it tries to compare it.
In a local copy I have changed the test (as below) and the files now
process correctly.
COSName type = (COSName)dic.getDictionaryObject( COSName.TYPE );
if( type != null && !type.equals( COSName.FONT ) )
{
throw new IOException( "Cannot create font if /Type is not
/Font. Actual=" +type );
}
Is it worth putting a more meaningful check into the next PDFBox to
either report an error or cope (as I have done here), rather than
falling over?
As an aside, when I attempted to build PDFBox 1.6.0 from the source zip
it was missing the resource file glyphlist.txt.
--
Rgds.
*Dawn Raison*
