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open office pdf has invalid characters

Asked by madtom1999

I have been trying to use pdftk to append some files to a small pdf generated by open office 3.2 writer.
the program errors with
gnu.xml.dom.DomDOMException: That character is not permitted.
More Information: þÿOpenOffice.org 3.2; modified using iText 2.1.7 by 1T3XT
   at gnu.xml.dom.DomDocument.checkChar(libgcj.so.10)
   at gnu.xml.dom.DomDocument.checkChar(libgcj.so.10)
   at gnu.xml.dom.DomDocument.createTextNode(libgcj.so.10)
   at com.lowagie.text.xml.xmp.XmpReader.setNodeText(itext-2.1.7.jar.so)
   at com.lowagie.text.xml.xmp.XmpReader.replace(itext-2.1.7.jar.so)
   at com.lowagie.text.pdf.PdfStamperImp.close(itext-2.1.7.jar.so)

I can reproduce this error with most OpenOffice generated PDF files but not those from other sources.

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Tony Pursell (ajpursell) said : 		#1

If you really think this a bug, then post a bug report, but it could easily be a problem with pdftk being over sensitive. However, I am not at all knowledgeable about what is allowed in PDFs

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ISOOBA IVAN (ivanisooba) said : 		#2

the problem may be with your adobe reader so check its installation.

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