Serializing a `CArray` results in a broken document.

[m-gallesio]

The way CArray is serialized just concatenates its elements with no spacing included:

PDFsharp/src/foundation/src/PDFsharp/src/PdfSharp/Pdf.Content.Objects/CObjects.cs

Line 580 in 3258c10

public class CArray : CSequence

This means a document gets broken if when a page's content is replaced via PdfPage.Contents.ReplaceContent(CSequence) if the new content contains any CArray.

See the reproduction code sample, reproduced here:

using PdfSharp.Pdf.Content;
using PdfSharp.Pdf.Content.Objects;
using PdfSharp.Pdf.IO;
using System.IO;

using var inputStream = File.OpenRead(args[0]);
using var document = PdfReader.Open(inputStream, PdfDocumentOpenMode.Modify);

foreach (var page in document.Pages)
{
    var newContent = new CSequence();
    foreach (var item in ContentReader.ReadContent(page))
        newContent.Add(item);
    page.Contents.ReplaceContent(newContent);
}

document.Save(Path.Combine(Path.GetDirectoryName(args[0]), Path.GetFileNameWithoutExtension(args[0]) + "_EDITED.pdf"));

This sample reads each page via ContentReader and re-creates it by just concatenating said contents.

The sample files included in the /files folder are:

• A DOCX document containing a box with dashed borders
• Its PDF version converted by Microsoft Word. The dashed borders are rendered via a d operator with a CArray of CReals as its operand
• The result of processing said PDF document with the sample code.

Exactly how broken the document appears depends on the viewer; in the sample case:

• Microsoft Edge's embedded viewer renders the box with dashed borders but ignores the original dash spacing
• Firefox's embedded viewer renders the box correctly
• Adobe Acrobat reader completely stops rendering the document once it reaches the dashed box
• The original document I discovered this in breaks PDFBox's parser because it tries to read the concatenated floats as a single float

[ThomasHoevel]

Fixed with PDFsharp 6.2.4, coming 2026.