You're looking in the wrong place. Look under PDEmbeddedFile's createOutputStream method. What does it return?
On Sun, Apr 4, 2021 at 11:53 AM Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de> wrote: > Here's what I see in the source code: > > > https://svn.apache.org/viewvc/pdfbox/branches/2.0/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/common/PDStream.java?revision=1888047&view=markup#l216 > > > Tilman > > Am 04.04.2021 um 11:29 schrieb Gilad Denneboom: > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to load an embedded PDF file as a new PDDocument object so I can > read its contents and the way to do it seems to be to get the output stream > from PDStream, convert it to an ByteArrayOutputStream and then load that > directly. > > However, when I call the createOutputStream method of my PDStream object, > the output is a COSStream object, not a OutputStream one, as both the > internal method reference and the online documentation suggest it should be > (See:https://pdfbox.apache.org/docs/2.0.13/javadocs/org/apache/pdfbox/pdmodel/common/PDStream.html#createOutputStream-- > ). > > Is this an incorrect documentation or implementation? What can I do to > overcome this issue and load the COSStream object as a new document? > > I'm using PDFBox 2.0.23, by the way. > > Regards, Gilad. > > > >
