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Re: [LUG] Blooming PDF's

 

On Wed, 2011-07-06 at 18:34 +0100, tom wrote:
> On 06/07/11 18:23, Rob Beard wrote:
> > On 06/07/11 18:11, tom wrote:
> >> I'm trying to attach some files to a pdf using pdftk and getting the
> >> following:
> >> Unhandled Java Exception:
> >> gnu.xml.dom.DomDOMException: That character is not permitted.
> >> More Information: ÃÃOpenOffice.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)
> >>
> >> both the file and the attachment seem to be ok
> >> Anyone got any idea of what this mught be or how to do what I'm trying
> >> another way>?
> >> Tom te tom te tom
> >>
> >
> > Can you convert it all to HTML? :-)
> >
> > Rob
> >
> Unfortunately the recipient site is attempting to revert to the dark 
> ages and are insisting that any useful file formats are attached in pdf 
> documents - I guess they want to fill up their disks as quickly as possible.
> Tom te tom te tom
> 

Some thoughts

Fonts?

java -version 

in Openoffice or use 

alternatives --config java

Do you need the Sun java or gcj?

 finally you could try online at http://www.pdfescape.com/ cheating but
may produce a result?


Regards

Kevin Lucas
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