I was finally able to get this entered in JIRA as PDFBOX-1355. I was
unable to post the bug using my Android phone, the JIRA webpages appear
to only work on desktop browsers. During the summer months, I will have
very spotty or poor internet connectivity, and the phone becomes the
only way to perform email and browse.
Also I tried to send this message, but I think the email address was
wrong. So this is a re-send (hope there is no duplication of messages).
The essence of the bug report is:
I have been using a particular TrueType font with
many previous versions of PDFBox. It loaded and worked fine
up to version 1.6.0. Now at level 1.7.0, I get a
NullPointerException when attempting to load this
TTF file:
Exception: java.lang.NullPointerException
java.lang.NullPointerException
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadDescriptorDictionary(PDTrueTypeFont.java:319)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(PDTrueTypeFont.java:166)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(PDTrueTypeFont.java:142)
at
org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDTrueTypeFont.loadTTF(PDTrueTypeFont.java:129)
at test.<init>(test.java:23)
at test.main(test.java:36)
My testcase (simply performing a loadTTF()) works with 1.6.0
of PDFBox. This font is certainly an oldie, but it does validate
using "Font Book" on my Mac. That program looks through a TrueType font,
checking all internal tables for correctness.
The JIRA bug report has a copy of the .ttf file.
Thanks for your assistance,
Bob Swanson
