Hello iText users and developers:
 
There was an earlier post where some "underscores" or short dashes in the PDF were being produced whenever a newline XML tag was used.  Bruno showed that it was not a font problem but an actual PDF command to draw a line and concluded that the code using iText, and not iText itself, was responsible for doing this.
 
I too am having this problem.  Unfortunately, it only happens on our QA server after it has been running for quite awhile.
 
We are using iText on an application server to produce and mail PDF documents.  I'm wondering if there could be some static variables that are getting corrupted somehow.  We don't use the iText objects in a multi-threaded manner, but multiple threads could be accessing iText statics simultaneously.
 
I'm trying to debug further and get more information, but I'm not allowed to touch the QA server.  I cannot reproduce it locally.  I ran 100 concurrent threads each producing 1000 documents on my development box and nothing odd happened.
 
I have a test JSP where I can enter iText tags and it produces a PDF.  On the QA box where the problem is happening, a simple document with just a <newline/> tag produces a single dash line on the PDF.
 
So, the original post was not a hoax, and I'm pretty stumped on what to do next.  I would love to trace the QA code and see how and why iText is behaving differently than on my local machine.
 
I realize I don't have much to go on, but any ideas would be appreciated.  And if/when I find anything else out, I'll post them.  Thanks.
 
Shawn Gordhamer
Aetna Corp.
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