While packaging book encoutered ... exception ... Invalid slice of Bytestream

Question

Hi I have encouter an exception while packaging book to acs4 server, could someone be able to shade some light on the possible causes of this exception ? many thanks in advance
BR,
victor
the following is the stacktrace...
com.adobe.internal.pdftoolkit.core.exceptions.PDFIOException: java.io.IOException: Invalid slice of Bytestream
    at com.adobe.internal.pdftoolkit.core.cos.CosDocument.getStream(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.internal.pdftoolkit.core.cos.CosStream.writeOut(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.internal.pdftoolkit.core.cos.CosObject.writeOut(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.internal.pdftoolkit.core.cos.CosObjectInfo.writeIndirectObject(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.internal.pdftoolkit.core.cos.CosDocument.writeIndirectObjects(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.internal.pdftoolkit.core.cos.CosDocument.fullSave(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.internal.pdftoolkit.core.cos.CosDocument.save(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.internal.pdftoolkit.pdf.document.PDFDocument.saveFull(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.internal.pdftoolkit.pdf.document.PDFDocument.doSave(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.internal.pdftoolkit.pdf.document.PDFDocument.save(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.adept.packaging.pdf.PDFPackager.writeEncrypted(PDFPackager.java:248)
    at com.adobe.adept.packaging.servlet.Package.doPost(Package.java:582)
    at com.adobe.adept.packaging.servlet.Package.doPost(Package.java:61)
    at com.adobe.adept.servlet.AdeptServlet.doPost(AdeptServlet.java:158)
    at com.adobe.adept.servlet.AdeptServlet.doPost(AdeptServlet.java:231)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:637)
    at javax.servlet.http.HttpServlet.service(HttpServlet.java:717)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.internalDoFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.j ava:290)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationFilterChain.doFilter(ApplicationFilterChain.java:206)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapperValve.invoke(StandardWrapperValve.java:233)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContextValve.invoke(StandardContextValve.java:191)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardHostValve.invoke(StandardHostValve.java:127)
    at org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:102)
    at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngineValve.invoke(StandardEngineValve.java:109)
    at org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:298)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.process(Http11Processor.java:852)
    at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Protocol$Http11ConnectionHandler.process(Http11Protocol.ja va:588)
    at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:396)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)
    at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)
    at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:619)
Caused by: java.io.IOException: Invalid slice of Bytestream
    at com.adobe.internal.io.stream.ByteReaderInputByteStream.<init>(Unknown Source)
    at com.adobe.internal.io.stream.ByteReaderInputByteStream.slice(Unknown Source)
    ... 31 more

Answer 1

Most likely it's something wrong with the PDF file.  Opening it up in Acrobat should let you see if it is a really bad error, and if notI would either do a save as in Acrobat, or run it through the Optimize in Acrobat which will have Acrobat resave the file and should fix any minor errors.