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ecuadorian-in-charge
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September 10, 2009
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Illustrator CS4 error: Object label badly formatted?

  • September 10, 2009
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has anyone received an error in illustrator CS4: Acrobat PDF File Format is having difficulties. Object label badly formatted? I am ON a mac and cannot open files after this error, help?

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    Eye-T
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    September 14, 2009

    Hi,

    I just encountered the same problem, nearly lost a days work. However I have found a way to 'crow bar' the corrupt file back into Illustrator.

    If you right click the .ai that wont open and choose 'open with' then 'preview' the preview allows you to save the fike as a PDF, which will them open in InDesign.

    You will loose anything outside the page frame and text is outlined, but for the most part you can continue where you left off.

    Its a dirty fix, but in my case it has saved me doing alot of legwork to get back to where I was.

    But really this issue is a discrace.

    Adobe sort it out!!!

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    Wade_Zimmerman1
    Inspiring
    September 14, 2009

    Did you try opening that pdf in Illustrator and resaving it?

    And I am wondering if you try to place the file in an empty Ai document instead of opening it?

    BTW if the problem is a Suitcase problem then really Adobe has little control over it being fixed and I suggest again you switch Font Managers.

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    Eye-T
    Participating Frequently
    September 14, 2009

    Sorry, yes I did, indesign was a typo! I meant Illustrator.

    Illustrator opens the PDF fine. and actually the last one i did the font is not outlined either.

    After that saving seems OK, but it could happen again at any moment, for now I am turning off PDF in save as dialogue and saving as CS3 so i can keep working with old mac  if CS4 keeps misbehaving.

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    ecuadorian-in-chargeAuthor
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    September 12, 2009

    That is the BIG question, and I am waiting on adobe to confirm, if this is a SUITCASE/EXTENSIS problem. WHen I had extensis tech support, we did a test where you turn OFF suitcase (thru preferences) and launch any illustrator file, especially those file that have gone corrupt, and the file did not open... Which points the problem / issue to adobe illustrator / acrobat, sorry I do not have a resolution, but if this helps, I lost 1.5 days of work because of this problem.

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    KFarms808
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    September 12, 2009

    Yes, but was the file corrupt because of Fusion first?  If so, then turning it off and trying to open a file is closing the barn doors after the cows are gone.

    Here is some info about my experience:

    I took an existing CS3 file I did last year with Fusion installed and working that needed to be reworked for this year and saved it as CS4.  Then I made extensive changes to it and hit cmd-s and it said it couldn't save it.  So I did a "save as" and it seemed to save OK.  However, once the file was closed and I tried to reopen it, it threw this "badly formatted error".

    So today, as a test, I opened a different old AICS3 file (that was created in CS3 before I upgraded to CS4 and Fusion ON) it opens fine.  I make changes to it and save as CS4 and it seems fine.  Now, this one DOESN'T have a problem and opens fine.  The only difference I see is some fonts used in one that aren't used in the other.

    Soooo....

    I went back to the file that I changed and was corrupt and did the same thing only I changed all the fonts to generic Arial.  It opens just fine.

    So it is time to run the font doctor and any other tests I can to see what the problem is.  It appears that some fonts aren't playing nice with either Fusion, CS4 or Snow Leopard.

    Stay tuned .....

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    agotcher
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    September 12, 2009

    I'm running 10.5.8, CS4 and Fusion2..... everything was fine with the files opening and saving... until I was prompted to update the fusion2 for SL. Then they got corrupted. It has to be the Fusion2 update! I'm going to reinstall the preUpdate version or just keep it off until they fix it. You would think they would test it before they push it out. Just to have a SL ready version. I doubt it's CS4.

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    agotcher
    Participant
    September 11, 2009

    Is there any more on this issue? I'm having the same problems.

    I tried the clean font cache method....Looks like I will be rebuilding files all day!

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    ecuadorian-in-chargeAuthor
    Participating Frequently
    September 11, 2009

    YES! but no good news yet... I called extensis today and was on the phone with tech support for an hour and tried to clean up, clear font caches and 2 tests... Extensis said today that the problem is with Acrobat and we'll need to wait on adobe to get their asses moving to resolve this issue, sorry.

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    KFarms808
    Participating Frequently
    September 12, 2009

    Thanks for doing the leg work on this.  I have the same issue and it has ground my design work to a halt with deadlines looming.  This is not good.  Hopefully, one of these companies will take responsibility and fix it quickly.

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    ecuadorian-in-chargeAuthor
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    September 11, 2009

    ME TOO!!! I also updated suitcase fusion 2 and it updated stuff in illustrator (thought it had something to do with how it automatically opens fonts), and thats when I started having problems, maybe need to contact extensis tomorrow morning? Thanks for responding!!!

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    Wade_Zimmerman1
    Inspiring
    September 11, 2009

    You are not going to like this but i strongly suggest you get another font manager and I recommend Font Agent Pro.

    Then I would clear out for font cache files.

    Trash the settings folder  as such

    I would first quite Illustrator and then;


    I would go to Users/username/Library/preferences/Adobe Illustrator CS4 Settings folder and trash that settings folder.

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    Cre8ive74
    Known Participant
    September 16, 2009

    Well, I took Wades advice and bought Font Agent -- I can't wait for Extensis or Adobe to fix this -- losing way too many files. After cleaning out things fusion on my CPU I installed Font Agent and so far so great (knocking on wood) I have done 3 projects this morning in Illustrator with no errors on reopen.

    What scares me, is it seems this problem has been around since 2004 -- I'm hoping switching font managers is the solution for me.

    Thanks for the tip Wade

    My machine specs are :Intel Core i7 - 9700F CPU @ 3.00 GHZ 8 core 64 GB of ram 64 bit operating system NVIDIA GeForce RTX 2060 with 164 MB memory Monitor is BenQ PD3200U 4K UHD - hooked up via HDMIandMac mini (M1, 2020) - 16GB Ram - 2TB SSD
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    aakozy
    Participant
    September 11, 2009

    me too... just happed on mac illustrator cs4. acrobat pdf file format is having difficulties. object label badly formatted.

    i had 2 other back up files an none of them are opening.


    earlier today i did an update for suitcase fusion 2 and it updated stuff in illustrator. wonder if that could have anything to do with it.

    HELP?!?!?!?!?!?!?

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