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[jira] Resolved: (PDFBOX-592) please accommodate '-' where a number is expected

     [ https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-592?page=com.atlassian.jira.plugin.system.issuetabpanels:all-tabpanel ]

Jukka Zitting resolved PDFBOX-592.
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         Assignee: Jukka Zitting
    Fix Version/s: 1.3.0
       Resolution: Fixed

Fixed as suggested in revision 988506. Thanks!

> please accommodate '-' where a number is expected
> -------------------------------------------------
>
>                 Key: PDFBOX-592
>                 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-592
>             Project: PDFBox
>          Issue Type: Improvement
>          Components: Parsing
>    Affects Versions: 0.8.0-incubator
>            Reporter: Godmar Back
>            Assignee: Jukka Zitting
>             Fix For: 1.3.0
>
>
> PDF's created by ScanSoft's PDF driver have '-' where a number is needed, as in 1 0 0 1 - 783 Tm. See http://markmail.org/message/r63jfd5wybejzbkr for details.
> Proposal: interpret - as 0.  Patch:
> --- /tmp/x/pdfbox-0.8.0-incubating/src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/pdfparser/PDFStreamParser.java       2009-09-14 19:39:44.000000000 -0400
> +++ src/main/java/org/apache/pdfbox/pdfparser/PDFStreamParser.java      2010-01-07 00:14:45.000000000 -0500
> @@ -252,7 +252,12 @@
>                          dotNotRead = false;
>                      }
>                  }
> -                retval = COSNumber.get( buf.toString() );
> +                String number = buf.toString();
> +                /* accommodate PDF files (such as ScanSoft-created ones that output '-' 
> +                 * where a number is expected.  Substitute a 0 */ 
> +                if ("-".equals(number))
> +                    number = "0";
> +                retval = COSNumber.get( number );
>                  break;
>              }
>              case 'B':

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