diff --git a/xmerge/source/xmerge/java/org/openoffice/xmerge/converter/palm/PdbDecoder.java b/xmerge/source/xmerge/java/org/openoffice/xmerge/converter/palm/PdbDecoder.java
index 3518feb29931..b3fbd4df0854 100644
--- a/xmerge/source/xmerge/java/org/openoffice/xmerge/converter/palm/PdbDecoder.java
+++ b/xmerge/source/xmerge/java/org/openoffice/xmerge/converter/palm/PdbDecoder.java
@@ -97,7 +97,10 @@ public final class PdbDecoder {
 
                 //dis.seek(recOffset[i]);
                 dis.reset();
-                dis.skip(recOffset[i]);
+                int nBytesToSkip = recOffset[i];
+                while (nBytesToSkip > 0) {
+                    nBytesToSkip -= dis.skip(nBytesToSkip);
+                }
                 int len = recOffset[i+1] - recOffset[i];
                 byte[] bytes = new byte[len];
                 dis.readFully(bytes);
@@ -122,4 +125,4 @@ public final class PdbDecoder {
 
         return pdb;
     }
-}
\ No newline at end of file
+}