PDF created with OwnerPassword cannot be read: SharpZipBaseException: Header checksum illegal

[Myster]

Hi,
I have a .NET website that will watermark the current username onto any PDF they download.
From the middleware which does this I think this is the most relevant code:

	pdfDoc = PdfReader.Open(fileStream, "__redacted__",PdfDocumentOpenMode.Modify);
	if (pdfDoc.Version < 14) // version 14 is the version at which transparent text for the watermark is supported.
		pdfDoc.Version = 14;
	
	pdfDoc.SecuritySettings.OwnerPassword = "__redacted__";
	pdfDoc.SecuritySettings.PermitAccessibilityExtractContent = true;
	pdfDoc.SecuritySettings.PermitFullQualityPrint = false;
	pdfDoc.SecuritySettings.PermitPrint = true;
	
	// ...snip... apply watermark...
	
	using var outputStream = new MemoryStream();
	pdfDoc.Save(outputStream, false);
	outputStream.Position = 0;
	context.Response.ContentType = "application/pdf";
	await outputStream.CopyToAsync(context.Response.Body);

If I try and upload the file created/downloaded this way I get the following exception:

SharpZipBaseException: Header checksum illegal
ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.Compression.Inflater.DecodeHeader()
ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.Compression.Inflater.Decode()
ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.Compression.Inflater.Inflate(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
ICSharpCode.SharpZipLib.Zip.Compression.Streams.InflaterInputStream.Read(byte[] buffer, int offset, int count)
PdfSharpCore.Pdf.Filters.FlateDecode.Decode(byte[] data, FilterParms parms)
PdfSharpCore.Pdf.Filters.Filter.Decode(byte[] data, PdfDictionary decodeParms)
PdfSharpCore.Pdf.Filters.Filtering.Decode(byte[] data, PdfItem filterItem, PdfItem decodeParms)
PdfSharpCore.Pdf.Advanced.PdfContent.Decode()
PdfSharpCore.Pdf.Advanced.PdfContent..ctor(PdfDictionary dict)
PdfSharpCore.Pdf.Advanced.PdfContents..ctor(PdfArray array)
PdfSharpCore.Pdf.PdfPage.get_Contents()
PdfSharpCore.Drawing.XGraphics..ctor(PdfPage page, XGraphicsPdfPageOptions options, XGraphicsUnit pageUnit, XPageDirection pageDirection)
PdfSharpCore.Drawing.XGraphics.FromPdfPage(PdfPage page, XGraphicsPdfPageOptions options)
DXP.Middleware.PdfWatermarkMiddleware.InvokeAsync(...

I'm sure I'm missing something, but not sure what :-)

[ThomasHoevel]

PDFsharp never used the SharpZipLib NuGet package.
Feel free to try PDFsharp 6.2.0 Preview 3 and see if that works.
Check if there are issues with file encoding during upload or download.

[Myster]

Oh Sorry, I think I posted this on the wrong repo 😬

[ThomasHoevel]

PDFsharp is the original and PdfSharpCore is the port of a port of an old version of PDFsharp.
Depending on your code, the transition to PDFsharp could be pretty simple and straightforward.