fill_form crashes on Japanese and malformed form values
fill_form crashes on some forms with Japanese text, broken FDF values or missing font objects, producing no output.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
3 public reports · first reported 29 January 2025 · last reported 16 November 2025
What's going wrong
People filling PDF forms with pdftk's fill_form command, using FDF data generated from the form, see Java exceptions instead of a filled file.
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