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PDF error: TCPDF_PARSER ERROR: Invalid object reference: Array

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 12:50 pm
by aldjohn
I keep getting this message after I download a pdf to fax. The latest one was 2.9MB. Is that too big? What does the error mean? Tech support is clueless.

Re: PDF error: TCPDF_PARSER ERROR: Invalid object reference: Array

Posted: Mon Jan 30, 2017 1:19 pm
by drew.phillips
This means that there might be an error with the some part of the document or it doesn't totally follow the PDF spec and contains some issues that are a problem for a portion of our fax tool. This error means that the document contains a reference to an object (like a graphic, font, or data stream) that doesn't exist.

A PDF repair tool (several free online utilities for this exist) might be able to clean up the document so that doesn't happen again.

Something like this won't usually prevent a PDF reader from totally viewing the file, but can cause problems for some tools that are set not to ignore it.