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_Quinn_Nowlan_
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January 9, 2008
Question

BAD PARAMETER Error when Deleting Pages in Acrobat

  • January 9, 2008
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When I attempted to delete pages in Acrobat Standard, I received an information error stating:

Bad Parameter

When I try to click ok on the error message, it just keeps coming back over and over again. There is no way to get rid of the error message so I am forced to end the program using the Windows Task Manager.

Has anyone seen this error message before and if so, is there a fix?

Any help is greatly appreciated!!

Thanks!
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    Jessie_Blaze
    Participant
    September 28, 2011

    Stan your idea worked for me as well. I seem to only get the bad parameter issue when Ièm inserting docs from our 'sister' company....pain in the rear but thanks again stan!

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    TorontoMacGirlsince96
    Participant
    June 7, 2011

    Client had her book typeset in Word (gawd!!!) and replacing pages in the pdf was impossible with Bad Parameters error. Found the workaround by exporting postscript file from the pdf created by Word and dragging and dropping onto Distiller, created a brand new ADOBE pdf and pages could be easily inserted and deleted.

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    Anonymous
    January 4, 2011

    Agreed. I am facing the problem of this error when trying to extract/delete/insert, Adobe Acrobat 9 pro, in a large document with linked header numbers, page numbers, etc. I

    cannot afford to go back to Word to regenerate a PDF, because I am adjusting tag strucutures etc for 508 standards.

    Adobe, what the heck does "bad parameter" mean, and how do I make my parameters good again so I can fix a tag tree on page 203 of a 205 page document? No time to fix it in source document!!!

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      SharpAAA
      Known Participant
      February 16, 2011

      Sorry, I have no resolution-- only reporting that I have the same issues with Acrobat Pro 9.4.2 on Win7 with PDFs created from Word 2010-- and I want to get an auto e-mail if someone finds a soluiton. My issue: bad parameter inserting pages and can't apply security.

      Roger

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      stanmay
      Participant
      February 22, 2011

      I use Win7, Office 2007 and Acrobat 9.4.2 Standard. After reading the entries here I tried the following:

      Instead of using Word's Save as to save a Wod doc to .pdf which caused me the same "Bad parameter" error as everyone else, I printed to Adobe using Word's Print command. I now seem to be able to insert and delete pages at will with no "Bad Parameter" errors. Hope this helps someone else (and it continues to work for me).

      ...stan

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        Quadcrazy
        Participant
        December 1, 2010

        I am using Windows XP SP2 and I am getting the Bad Parameter error when trying to delete pages from a .pdf that I created in Acrobat 9 Pro. None of these suggestions have helped. Why isn't anyone from Adobe addressing this issue or at least advising the folks in this forum what to do?

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        Anonymous
        August 5, 2010

        Hello,

        This is an incredably annoying error. I had a complete manuscript ready for print, except I needed to delete one page, which of course Acrobat would not let me. I had spent a considerable amount of energy on the page numbering, bookmarks etc., so creating a completely new PDF by for example printing to PDF was out of the question.

        In the end, I ended up extracting all the pages in the document, except the one I wanted to delete. This way, I ended up with a new PDF, but all of the bookmarks, page number formatting, etc. migrated together with the extracted pages to the new document.

        Hopefully, Adobe will be able to fix this issue soon.

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          smcbride1
          Participant
          October 25, 2010

          I am having the same problem except I can't extract either!!  I am running Window 7 and Acrobat 9 Pro.  Please tell me there is a fix somewhere, none of the other options worked for me. 

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          Anonymous
          February 18, 2010

          HI,

          Solved this problem by 'printing' a new PDF of original PDF through an Acrobat print driver (see .png attached). Not very technically minded - so perhaps someone could explain that a little more clearly. Turning off 'verify signatures' in preferences or 'Save as' to create a new PDF didn't work.

          Vaun.

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            Paul Swann
            Participant
            November 19, 2010

            Thanks - this worked for me (i.e. printing to a pdf file)

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            _shih-hao_fan-chiang_
            Participant
            October 1, 2008
            the "bad parameter" error when applying security still haunts me even after unchecking "verifyy signatures whe the document is opened". Any further thoughts?

            Thanks
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            _Al_Klee_
            Participant
            September 12, 2008
            This was driving me crazy too, but the following finally solved the problem for me:

            Go to Edit> Preferences> Security and uncheck "Verify signatures when the document is opened"
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            _yiota_Kontomichalos_
            Participant
            April 1, 2008
            I'm still having this problem. Can someone shed some light on this?
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            _yiota_Kontomichalos_
            Participant
            February 13, 2008
            Has anyone had any luck with the reason for the Bad parameter error. We're now getting it when we try to save a file with password security. We can save without security but not if we apply security.
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