How to skip over corrupt files with PHP libraries TCPDF and FPDI by modifying error handling?

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I am using the PHP libraries TCPDF and FPDI to combine PDF documents, and am getting the following error: TCPDF ERROR: Unable to find object (10, 0) at expected location I have the commercial version of FPDI. It appears that the issue is only happening with PDF Version 1.3 (Acrobat 4.x) files. Here is a screenshot of a file's document properties that is creating the error. http://imagebin.org/215041 I'd like to skip over any files with errors instead of letting the script die. I have modified the error handling with a new class `ErrorIgnoringTCPDF`, however, it is not working. Any ideas? ``` require_once('../../libraries/tcpdf/tcpdf.php'); require_once('../../libraries/fpdi/fpdi.php'); class ErrorIgnoringTCPDF extends FPDI { public function Error($msg) { // unset all class variables $this->_destroy(true); // exit program and print error //die('TCPDF ERROR: '.$msg); } } $pdf = new ErrorIgnoringTCPDF(); $pdf->setPrintHeader(false); $prows = fetch_data($id); foreach ($pr…

Accepted Answer

If you are using Linux you can use shell_exec to combine files

```
function combine_pdf($outputName,$fileArray)
{

$cmd = "gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sOutputFile=$outputName ";

foreach($fileArray as $file)
         {
           $cmd .= $file." ";
         }
         $result = shell_exec($cmd);

}
```

How to skip over corrupt files with PHP libraries TCPDF and FPDI by modifying error handling?

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