Space export to PDF fails during conversion of intermediate HTML to PDF
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Summary
Problem
When exporting a space to PDF the export progress stops and fails during {{Begin conversion of intermediate HTML to PDF}} of the export process. The following error will be in the UI:
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Failed during PDF export. Exception message - Exception while rendering the PDF document <confluence_home>/temp/pdfexport-20161225-251216-1159-11/TEST-251216-1159-12.pdfThe following appears also in the atlassian-confluence.log file. Specifically the stacktrace below the Caused by referring tot he xhtml render issues.
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2016-11-22 11:48:10,688 ERROR [Long running task: PDF Space Export] [core.task.longrunning.AbstractLongRunningTask] doInTransactionWithoutResult Error during PDF export
-- referer: http://localhost:8599/conf/spaces/flyingpdf/flyingpdf.action?key=TEST | url: /conf/spaces/flyingpdf/doflyingpdf.action | userName: admin | action: doflyingpdf
com.atlassian.confluence.importexport.ImportExportException: Exception while rendering the PDF document /Users/admin/atl/confluence/599/home/temp/pdfexport-20161122-221116-1147-11/TEST-221116-1147-12.pdf
at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.flyingpdf.FlyingSaucerXmlToPdfConverter.convertXhtmlToPdf(FlyingSaucerXmlToPdfConverter.java:102)
at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.flyingpdf.FlyingSaucerPdfExporterService.createPdfForSpace(FlyingSaucerPdfExporterService.java:73)
at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.flyingpdf.PdfExportLongRunningTask$1.doInTransactionWithoutResult(PdfExportLongRunningTask.java:77)
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Caused by: java.lang.NullPointerException
at org.xhtmlrenderer.layout.Layer.paint(Layer.java:365)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.layout.Layer.paintLayers(Layer.java:166)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.layout.Layer.paint(Layer.java:353)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer.paintPage(ITextRenderer.java:505)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer.writePageByPage(ITextRenderer.java:302)
at org.xhtmlrenderer.pdf.ITextRenderer.layoutAndPaint(ITextRenderer.java:329)
at com.atlassian.confluence.extra.flyingpdf.FlyingSaucerXmlToPdfConverter.convertXhtmlToPdf(FlyingSaucerXmlToPdfConverter.java:89)
... 12 moreDiagnosis
Environment
The HTML Macro
Cause
The XHTML renderer is experiencing problems with HTML somewhere in the space and is unable to export it.
Solution
Workaround
Disable the HTML Macro to successfully export the content
Or remove the HTML content until you're able to find the offending content, however there could be multiple pieces of content causing issues
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