[Solved] Having problems dealing with corrupt PDF file.

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justjoh
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[Solved] Having problems dealing with corrupt PDF file.

Post by justjoh »

We're using PDF Creator .NET to add some text to existing PDF files. (Recieved on: 9999/99/99, and the like).

My customer preseted me with 3 PDF files that cannot be opened in Adobe, Foxit Reader, Spicer Imagenation, or by an open source PDF library.
Each of these tools report that the source PDF file is corrupt.

When using PDF Creator .NET (acPDFCreatorLib.Net.dll version 3.0.3.4), however, the followng code snippet executes without any errors.
(number of pages reported is 1, and PDF Version is reported as 1.2)

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            using (var pdf = new IacDocument(null))
            {
                Inform("Open file: {0} for stamping.", inputFile);
                using (var fs = File.Open(inputFile, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
                {
                    pdf.Open(fs, string.Empty);
                }

                pages = pdf.PageCount;
                Inform("Number of pages to stamp = {0}.", pages);
            }
I need to be able to detect up front if the source file I'm going to stamp is corrupt.

Any guidance anyone can give would be most helpful.

Thanks,

Nick
Joan
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Re: Having problems dealing with corrupt PDF file.

Post by Joan »

Hello,

You mean the files are supported by our PDF Creator but not by other PDF viewers?

You can use a method called GetWarningLevel. It is used to read any warnings generated when opening a document. However the warnings are related to features not supported by the PDF Creator.

Hope this helps, if not I suggest that you send your sample files to support@amyuni.com to have your files checked.
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justjoh
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Re: Having problems dealing with corrupt PDF file.

Post by justjoh »

No, I wouldn't say they're supported, rather that the corruption is going undetected.

The end result is that what should have been an 11 page PDF ends up as a single page that is blank, except for my stamp.

I tried using the debugger to see if any exceptions were being suppressed, but that doesn't seem to be the case. I'll have a look at GetWarningLevel and see if it indicates anything (Like maybe y'all are treating the corruption as an unsupported feature?)

I need to get customer's permission before sending any files (even corrupt ones), but I'll start that process now.

Thanks.
weswagner
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Re: Having problems dealing with corrupt PDF file.

Post by weswagner »

I have this exact same issue! I can insert an image into an existing PDF fine the first time, but if I try to add a second image to the document, the PDF document says it only contains one page and the outcome is a single page with the second image on it. I've posted on two different message boards and haven't heard back yet. Have you found out why this is happening?

Thanks in advance,
Wes
justjoh
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Re: Having problems dealing with corrupt PDF file.

Post by justjoh »

I did find my solution in the proudct documentation, and that was to examine the return code from the IacDocument.Open call. The original develoepr didn't use the return code, so at first I assumed there wasn't one.

In any case the snippet below correctly identified my 3 corrupt documents as having issues.

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using (var pdf = new IacDocument(null))
{
    Tracer.Inform(Resources.OpeningSourceFile, inputFile);
    using (var fs = File.Open(inputFile, FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read, FileShare.Read))
    {
        if (!pdf.Open(fs, string.Empty))
        {
            if (0 != pdf.Protected)
                throw new Exception(Resources.PasswordProtected);
            else
                throw new Exception(Resources.CorruptPDF);
        }
    }
    pages = pdf.PageCount;
    Inform("Number of pages to stamp = {0}.", pages);
}
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