Archana Nagesh wrote: > Hi, > > I am generating a PDF using iText. > In most cases the PDF generation is successful. But sometimes I get the > following error (this error is a random one): > > Rebuild failed: trailer not found; Original message: PDF startxref not found
Are these PDFs generated with iText? If not, then you have PDFs that aren't complete (1). These PDFs are invalid and can't be rebuilt. Or (2) the PDFs are complete, but plenty of rubbish is added at the end (gibberish, stuff that prevents the viewer to find the %EOF). If they are iText generated, (1) could happen when you forget to close() the document (or when the process generating the PDF closes the stream before document.close() is reached). In chapter 17 of my book, I have an anecdote from my day job where somebody created a PDF and added some HTML to the stream after the PDF was generated, causing problem (2) as described above. Fortunately, I didn't have to tell me colleague he had made a stupid mistake. He said so himself ;-) br, Bruno ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ iText-questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/itext-questions Do you like iText? Buy the iText book: http://www.1t3xt.com/docs/book.php Or leave a tip: https://tipit.to/itexttipjar
