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John Roche commented on PDFBOX-2596:
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I've done a bit more digging and this has just led to more weirdness. The
exception seems to be caused by the PDFDocument object that is created by
PDFParser getting garbage collected while it is still being used. I will
continue to dig and update again when I have more info.
> NullPointerException in RandomAccessFileInputStream
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> Key: PDFBOX-2596
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-2596
> Project: PDFBox
> Issue Type: Bug
> Affects Versions: 1.8.8
> Reporter: John Roche
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> Line 94 contains a synchronized(file) that throws a NullPointerException
> under some strange circumstances that I haven't been able to fully identify
> yet. I have downloaded the 1.8.8 source and the fix I used is simply to add
> "&& file != null" to the previous if statement.
> I can reproduce this bug with live user data, but I haven't been able to with
> test data yet. It happens when I try to create a pdf with 36 pages that have
> an image, some drawn coloured boxes and some text, on each page. If I remove
> some of the pages before I call save(File) it doesn't happen - depending on
> which pages I remove it can be ok with up to 26 pages, or break with fewer.
> Quite strange. I suspect it's to do with the size of the data as opposed to
> the number of pages.
> I will continue to investigate, since there seems to be some underlying
> issue, but for now I guess the null protection should be ok to add?
> Thanks,
> John
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