[Bug 779908] Re: pdftk fails with "output" option

[Scott T Rogers]

I just ran into this error today using Ubuntu 12.04 with all patches and
updates:

pdftk A=my_input.pdf cat A0-2 output my_output.pdf verbose
Command Line Data is valid.

Input PDF Filenames & Passwords in Order
( <filename>[, <password>] ) 
   my_input.pdf

The operation to be performed: 
   cat - Catenate given page ranges into a new PDF.

The output file will be named:
   my_output.pdf

Output PDF encryption settings:
   Output PDF will not be encrypted.

No compression or uncompression being performed on output.

Creating Output ...
   Adding page 0 X0X  from my_input.pdf
Unhandled Java Exception:
Unhandled Java Exception:
java.lang.NullPointerException
   at gnu.gcj.runtime.NameFinder.lookup(libgcj.so.12)
   at java.lang.Throwable.getStackTrace(libgcj.so.12)
   at java.lang.Throwable.stackTraceString(libgcj.so.12)
   at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(libgcj.so.12)
   at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(libgcj.so.12)

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Title:
  pdftk fails with "output" option

Status in “gcj-4.5” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed
Status in “pdftk” package in Ubuntu:
  Confirmed

Bug description:
  Binary package hint: pdftk

  When invoking pdftk with `pdftk a.pdf output /tmp/b.pdf` (I also tried
  `pdftk a.pdf cat output /tmp/b.pdf`), pdftk fails with the following
  messages:

  Unhandled Java Exception:
  Unhandled Java Exception:
  java.lang.NullPointerException
     at gnu.gcj.runtime.NameFinder.lookup(libgcj.so.11)
     at java.lang.VMThrowable.getStackTrace(libgcj.so.11)
     at java.lang.Throwable.getStackTrace(libgcj.so.11)
     at java.lang.Throwable.stackTraceString(libgcj.so.11)
     at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(libgcj.so.11)
     at java.lang.Throwable.printStackTrace(libgcj.so.11)

  ProblemType: Bug
  DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
  Package: pdftk 1.44-1
  ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-8.42-generic 2.6.38.2
  Uname: Linux 2.6.38-8-generic i686
  Architecture: i386
  Date: Mon May  9 14:51:36 2011
  ProcEnviron:
   LANGUAGE=de_DE:en
   PATH=(custom, user)
   LANG=de_AT.utf8
   LC_MESSAGES=de_DE.UTF-8
   SHELL=/bin/bash
  SourcePackage: pdftk
  UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to natty on 2011-04-28 (11 days ago)

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