> On 8 Dec 2015, at 12:27, Steve Churchill <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi PDFBox-ers, > > I’m maintaining a PDFBox app and I noticed that the boolean force argument > has been removed: > > 1.0 > public static org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument load(java.io.InputStream, > boolean) throws java.io.IOException > 2.0 > public static org.apache.pdfbox.pdmodel.PDDocument load(java.io.File, > java.lang.String, boolean) throws java.io.IOException; > > Where > force - When true, the parser will skip corrupt pdf objects and will continue > parsing at the next object in the file > > I notice that the argument is missing from PDFParser too (eventually invoked > by load()). Does anyone know what is the behavior now? Is it equivalent to > force==true or force==false?
The answer is roughly, “neither”. Force was only ever used for parsing problematic strings but we now parse these in a different manner. We’re able to skip over the bad content and keep going. — John > Thanks, > > ~ Steve --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
