A good friend of mine recently created a Java program that creates PDF files that are based to GNUPDF. It's running great when he's using a native Java code but when it's used through RPGLE, the program crashes when it processes images. He tracked it down when of them to loading an image from a .JAR file / removed the call from the code. It worked for a little while but it's crashing again for images loaded from IFS. Any ideas? Here's the code:

java.lang.NullPointerException
    at gnu.jpdf.PDFImage.write(PDFImage.java:286)
    at gnu.jpdf.PDFOutput.write(PDFOutput.java:114)
    at gnu.jpdf.PDFDocument.write(PDFDocument.java:307)
    at gnu.jpdf.PDFJob.end(PDFJob.java:182)
    at com.mysite.pdf.PdfDocumentStateValid.endDocument(PdfDocumentStateValid.java:657)
    at com.mysite.pdf.PdfDocument.endDocument(PdfDocument.java:36)
java.io.IOException: Descriptor not valid.
    at java.lang.Throwable.<init>(Throwable.java:196)
    at java.lang.Exception.<init>(Exception.java:41)
    at java.io.IOException.<init>(IOException.java:40)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.writeBytes(Native Method)
    at java.io.FileOutputStream.write(FileOutputStream.java:260)
    at java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream.writeTo(ByteArrayOutputStream.java:112)
    at gnu.jpdf.PDFOutput.<init>(PDFOutput.java:96)
    at gnu.jpdf.PDFDocument.write(PDFDocument.java:302)
    at gnu.jpdf.PDFJob.end(PDFJob.java:182)
    at java.awt.PrintJob.finalize(PrintJob.java:60)
    at java.lang.ref.Finalizer.runFinalizer(Finalizer.java:116)
    at java.lang.ref.Finalizer.access$100(Finalizer.java:47)
    at java.lang.ref.Finalizer$FinalizerThread.run(Finalizer.java:193)