Support for pdf/a pdf formats in merging pdfs

[jaslam-ca]

The library's(new PDFMerger()).add() function throws error "Expected instance of PDFDict, but got instance of undefined" when used with pdf/a files.

Following doesn't work with a pdf/a format:
pdf-a.pdf

npx pdf-merger-cli out.pdf pdf-a.pdf pdf-a.pdf

Following does work without a pdf/a format:
pdf-woa.pdf

npx pdf-merger-cli out.pdf pdf-woa.pdf pdf-woa.pdf

[jaslam-ca]

Another such file can be downloaded from https://www.manulife.ca/content/dam/consumer-portal/documents/en/forms/grs/other/GP0770.pdf

[biennui1998mu]

I met the same issue when using merger.add() to merge some of the files. @jaslam-ca @mojoaxel any idea for this?

• My code:

const render = async () => {
  const merger = new PDFMerger();

  for (const file of files) {
    console.log("sonnn", file);
    await merger.add(file.file).catch(e => {
      console.log("sonnn", e);
    });
  }

  const mergedPdf = await merger.saveAsBlob();
  const url = URL.createObjectURL(mergedPdf);

  return setPdf(url);
};

• My error log:

[davidstackio]

I believe this is because this pdf-merger-js libary uses the (no longer maintained) pdf-lib behind the scenes, which doesn't support pdf/a files.

See:
Hopding/pdf-lib#1260