Your pdf is corrupt. Acrobat goes to great lengths to recover a damaged pdf but iText won't.
Best Regards, Paulo Soares > -----Original Message----- > From: Nelson, Sherry [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 21:51 > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: RE: [iText-questions] "can't read cross-reference section" > > Correction: the error message that I get when trying to read some PDF's is > "ERROR: xref subsection not found at file pointer" > > > > Sorry, > > Sherry > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Nelson, Sherry [mailto:sherry.nelson@;isinet.com] > Sent: Monday, October 21, 2002 4:41 PM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: [iText-questions] "can't read cross-reference section" > > > > Hello, > > I have to read the titles of a large number of web-based PDF files and am > passing the bytes to PdfReader. This works for most of the files, but some > of them are generating an error "Can't read cross-reference section, > according to trailer." Any ideas on what the problem is? Note that I am > able to open the problem files in Acrobat 4 & 5. > > > > URL url = new URL( pdfURL ); > > urlcon = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection( ); > > urlcon.setDoInput(true); > > > > byte[] b = new byte[size + 1]; > > b = getBytesFromStream(urlcon.getInputStream()); > > > > PdfReader p = new PdfReader(b); > > HashMap hm = p.getInfo(); > > > > out.print(hm.get("Title")); > > > > thanks, > > Sherry > ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net emial is sponsored by: Influence the future of Java(TM) technology. Join the Java Community Process(SM) (JCP(SM)) program now. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;4699841;7576301;v? http://www.sun.com/javavote _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions
