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  1. Confluence Data Center
  2. CONFSERVER-30711

Confluence crashes visualizing a PDF with diagrams which have cubic c curve

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    • Icon: Bug Bug
    • Resolution: Fixed
    • Icon: Medium Medium
    • 5.3.1, 5.5
    • 4.1.10, 4.3.7, 5.2.3, 5.4.3, 5.4.4
    • None
    • Reproducible in:

      • Confluence 4.1.10 with Office Connector 2.1.10
      • Confluence 4.3.2 with Office Connector 2.1.12
      • Confluence 5.2.3 with Office Connector 3.1.1

      Steps to reproduce:
      1. Upload this PDF file to Confluence page: Panasonic_NiMH_HHR70AAAJ.pdf
      2. Go to Insert > Other Macros > PDF
      3. Try to preview this PDF.
      4. Confluence will crash.

      Error in atlassian-confluence.log:

      2013-09-10 16:33:01,427 WARN [http-8523-3] [com.benryan.conversion.PPTSlideServlet] doGet Conversion task timed out for attachment : Panasonic_NiMH_HHR70AAAJ.pdf with page number 0, waited : 300, now executing in background.
       -- url: /confluence/plugins/servlet/pptslide | userName: admin
      2013-09-10 16:33:01,750 WARN [http-8523-3] [com.benryan.conversion.PPTSlideServlet] doGet Conversion task timed out for attachment : Panasonic_NiMH_HHR70AAAJ.pdf with page number 0, waited : 300, now executing in background.
       -- url: /confluence/plugins/servlet/pptslide | userName: admin
      2013-09-10 16:33:02,069 WARN [http-8523-3] [com.benryan.conversion.PPTSlideServlet] doGet Conversion task timed out for attachment : Panasonic_NiMH_HHR70AAAJ.pdf with page number 0, waited : 300, now executing in background.
       -- url: /confluence/plugins/servlet/pptslide | userName: admin
      2013-09-10 16:33:02,384 WARN [http-8523-3] [com.benryan.conversion.PPTSlideServlet] doGet Conversion task timed out for attachment : Panasonic_NiMH_HHR70AAAJ.pdf with page number 0, waited : 300, now executing in background.
       -- url: /confluence/plugins/servlet/pptslide | userName: admin
      2013-09-10 16:33:37,774 WARN [http-8523-3] [com.benryan.conversion.PPTSlideServlet] doGet Conversion task timed out for attachment : Panasonic_NiMH_HHR70AAAJ.pdf with page number 0, waited : 300, now executing in background.
       -- url: /confluence/plugins/servlet/pptslide | userName: admin.
      

      Tomcat window freezed:

      Java process hanged:

      Workaround:

      Insert the PDF file into Confluence page using HTML macro in combination with iframe:

      1. Enable HTML macro module ((html-xhtml) from Manage Add-Ons > System Plugins > Confluence HTML Macros
      2. Go to a Confluence page > Insert > Other Macros > HTML
      3. Inside the HTML tag include the following iframe:
        <iframe src="http://confluence.atlassian.com/confluence/download/attachments/1114129/Panasonic_NiMH_HHR70AAAJ.pdf?api=v2" width="100%" style="height:50em" />
        
      4. Save page
      5. Result: The PDF is rendered fine in the page and Confluence is not crashing

      Note: You may replace the attachment link accordingly

      In 5.2.3, you'll need to check/tick the 'Insecure: Display all attachments inline' setting in Confluence Admin > Security Configurations > Attachment Download Security Policy so that Confluence will not try to download the PDF file into your local machine and just render it in the page.

      While this may be a legit workaround it has two major problems:

      1. PDF only gets rendered if you have an Adobe Reader Plugin or you use Firefox which uses pdf.js
      2. Confluence can crash any time since a user can upload a PDF and try to render it using viewxls.

      Possible Workaround one of customers reported that upgrading java to version 7u55 stabilised the instance from the occurrence of crashes.

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              psemeniuk Petro Semeniuk (Inactive)
              hsuhailah Hanis Suhailah (Inactive)
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