Yes we created the PDF with a program. The PDF should be accessible here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AfRuSitknlaEqadNC3fDmecCBQX5WuIO/view?usp=sharing
Thank you, Luis ________________________________ From: Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, November 26, 2025 1:23 PM To: [email protected] <[email protected]> Subject: Re: PDFBox Image Hi, Please upload your file to a sharehoster. Did you or your team / your company create that file? Tilman Am 26.11.2025 um 22:21 schrieb Luis Julian: > Hello, > > PDFBox is a great piece of software. We've been using PDFBox 3.0.5 to convert > some PDFs to images. It's been working well but we've encountered the > following error message for one of our PDFs: > Exception in thread "main" java.io.IOException: Type 2 descendant font not > allowed > :at > org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.font.PDFontFactory.createFont(PDFontFactory.java:105) > :at org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDResources.getFont(PDResources.java:171) > :at > org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.operator.text.SetFontAndSize.process(SetFontAndSize.java:66) > :at > org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processOperator(PDFStreamEngine.java:980) > :at > org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processStreamOperators(PDFStreamEngine.java:555) > :at > org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processStream(PDFStreamEngine.java:530) > :at > org.apache.pdfbox.contentstream.PDFStreamEngine.processPage(PDFStreamEngine.java:155) > :at org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.PageDrawer.drawPage(PageDrawer.java:288) > :at > org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.PDFRenderer.renderImage(PDFRenderer.java:355) > :at > org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.PDFRenderer.renderImage(PDFRenderer.java:272) > :at > org.apache.pdfbox.rendering.PDFRenderer.renderImageWithDPI(PDFRenderer.java:258) > :at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFToImage.main(PDFToImage.java:262) > :at org.apache.pdfbox.tools.PDFBox.main(PDFBox.java:93) > > Looking at the PDF, the issue seems to be that we're using the Type 2 CIDFont > directly instead of having it be a descendant of a Type 0 font. > > We are able to display the pdf in a variety of different PDF viewers, like > Chrome PDF viewer. It seems that the PDF viewers are more relaxed with how > fonts are used compared to the PDF specification. Is it possible to have > PDFBox be less strict and process this type of PDF either through a > configuration setting or programmatically? It would be great if PDFBox was > more flexible like many PDF viewers. > > Thank you, > Luis > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
