Yeah, that's why I asked the question. If that's to be expected going
forward.
On Mon, Jan 16, 2023, 12:45 AM Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de>
wrote:
> On 15.01.2023 16:04, Levi Wilson wrote:
> > Is it accurate that all versions through 3.0.0-alpha2 *do *raise
> exceptions
> > then? Just not alpha3?
>
> I don't know. You can test this yourself, you have the file.
>
> Tilman
>
>
>
> >
> > On Sun, Jan 15, 2023 at 2:06 AM Tilman Hausherr <thaush...@t-online.de>
> > wrote:
> >
> >>> My question is: was this intentional to silently fail? We realize that
> >> with
> >>> the wide amount of content that we receive that there are going to be
> >> "bad"
> >>> PDFs which is fine, but currently we are relying on PDFBox to tell us
> >> *when* it
> >>> is something that we shouldn't continue any further post-processing on
> or
> >>> not but if it silently fails, we think that if nothing blows up that it
> >>> means that we've received all of the pages. If we were to go to alpha3,
> >>> this would not be a true assumption any longer.
> >> This has been for years that we have allowed all sort of broken PDFs to
> >> pass, because this was the majority of the users wish, expressed by the
> >> often repeated emotional text "But it renders with Adobe Reader!".
> >>
> >> Using PDFBox to check whether a PDF is valid isn't a good idea. Try a
> >> tool like JHOVE.
> >>
> >> Tilman
> >>
> >>
> >>> Effectively we loop through a PDF to extract pages like so:
> >>>
> >>> Splitter splitter = new Splitter();
> >>> for(PDDocument page : splitter.split(document)) {
> >>> // save each page for consumption later
> >>> }
> >>>
> >>> Thanks in advance for any information that you can provide regarding
> our
> >>> expectations of this behavior.
> >>>
> >>> - Levi
> >>>
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