Hi Tilman, Please check this file: https://github.com/fh-yuxiao-zeng/pdfbox-bug-report/blob/main/file.pdf This is not our file in production, but I was able to manually create this PDF file and reproduce the issue.
-- Yuxiao Zeng（ユーシャオ ゼン） *スタッフエンジニアリングマネージャー* *医療情報技師* Flatiron Health株式会社 https://flatiron.co.jp On Tue, Feb 17, 2026 at 1:32 AM Tilman Hausherr <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > Please share that file (upload to a sharehoster that doesn't need > registration) > Tilman > > Am 16.02.2026 um 16:32 schrieb Yuxiao Zeng: > > Hi team, thank you for your great work on PDFBox! > > > > I want to report an issue with PDF parsing/rendering. > > > > In production, we have encountered with a PDF file that is not rendered > > properly with PDFBox. It looks like it's cut in the middle. On the other > > hand, Acrobat and pdf.js can render it without any problem. > > > > I troubleshot the issue. PDFBox reports a warning at a specific offset, > > which is in the middle of a string parameter to a TJ operator. What's > > interesting is that, the string contains the byte sequence "\\)\n>" (hex: > > 5C 29 0A 3E) around the offset. I found that PDFBox has a special > handling > > < > https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/blob/2.0.28/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/pdfparser/BaseParser.java#L480 > > > > for this byte sequence. This seems to explain our issue perfectly. > > > > Looking at the comment > > < > https://github.com/apache/pdfbox/blob/2.0.28/pdfbox/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/pdfparser/BaseParser.java#L365 > > > > I > > can understand that it's trying to work around some PDF producer bug. > > However, now it causes a rendering error for properly generated PDF > files. > > Is there something that we can do to get our PDFs rendered correctly? > > > > -- > > Yuxiao Zeng（ユーシャオ ゼン） > > *スタッフエンジニアリングマネージャー* > > > > *医療情報技師* > > > > Flatiron Health株式会社 > > https://flatiron.co.jp > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > >
