Comments on: “Expected dict” Errors in FDF Acrobat Forms

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Tue, 08 Feb 2011 14:06:45 +0000

That worked. I just saved the document and it appeared when i reopened the PDF. Thank you.

By: Erik

Erik — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 15:02:45 +0000

Monique,
we have almost the same problem here.
our users have PDF documents wich they need to provide with a Titlepage. The titelpage is made out of 2 Stamps.
When they try to combine the 2 files, PDF gives a ‘expected a dict object’.

Normal we would click ok, and think everything went wrong, and call some kind of helpdesk.

But when you try to combine the files, and you get the ‘expected a dict object’ message you clik ok. THEN SAVE the document. and close the original.

Now open the combined PDF file, you will see that the title page is there!……

curious case, if there’s someone who had the same problem, please Reply or e-mail me.

(i’m sorry for my bad english)

By: Monique

Monique — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 22:44:20 +0000

Wondering if anyone has experienced the “expected a dict” problem when not dealing with a form-fill pdf, or a web opened document? I added scanned pdf format pages to an existing pdf document, they inserted in a bizarre format – very, very, tiny, smaller than a postage stamp – and now I cannot delete them.

By: JENNIFER

JENNIFER — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:39:49 +0000

Just thought you should know that this post is still relevant!!! I sure was happy to find out that the problem I was having was due to a salesperson put a smilie in my form field!!!

By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:39:59 +0000

To clarify my post, as it was edited to remove html tags(a sentence was also removed in the process), FDF tags are opened with: <

A > was generated by Dreamweaver. Make sure that if you use a WYSIWYG editor, that tag close autocomplete options aren’t enabled when working with plaintext FDF generation.

By: Allan

Allan — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:34:50 +0000

I was having this issue too, and it was driving me crazy for over an hour. I am generating an FDF file in a PHP page, and churning it out plain text with an vnd.fdf header. But the problem I was running into when I was getting the “Expected dict” error was that I was using Dreamweaver that had tag close autocomplete on. So when I opened the <” for me. How lovely. I started comparing a PHP generated FDF file and a Reader generated FDF file, and the only difference was that lone “>” at <. I took it out manually, and hurrah, it’s working beautifully.

Solved! Thanks for the blog, I wouldn’t have figured out where to even look.

By: Adam

Adam — Sun, 07 Dec 2008 00:23:35 +0000

Thanks for having this forum!

It happened to me just 30 seconds ago- my web is still working, though.

By: Caz

Caz — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:58:56 +0000

I have this message when trying to open documents from internet since downloading version 8, but not with all documents. I do not have a danny about brackets forms etc. just want access as I used to have. Should I go back to old version?

By: Cliff

Cliff — Tue, 21 Aug 2007 17:19:41 +0000

I get this error and I have no forms on my PDF. ANy ideas?

By: Domingo

Domingo — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:15:06 +0000

Results:
1. “The file is damaged and could not be repaired”.
2. “Expected a dict object.”

Two problems occur when a form is submitted (Opened) with a single or close bracket in a textbox.

Steps to reproduce bug:
1. Single close Bracket “(” causes 1.

2. Single open Bracket “(” causes 2.

3. When an unpaired “)(” is used in a textbox causes 2.

These files are either submitted or read in IE 6.0.

One solution would be before submitting a form to run a js to change all “()” to “[]“.

Domingo