Error 109 - Object label badly formatted.

Question

Hello,

I'm unable to open a number of .pdf documents in Adobe Acrobat (64-bit) 23.003.20244 due to Error 109 - Object label badly formatted.

The files are able to be opened with Microsoft Edge, as well as Microsft Word. It can be saved as a PDF and is then able to be opened within Acrobat with all viewing and editing fuctions intact.

I've looked at past postings within Adobe Support Community and elseware and still haven't found any solutions that allow for me to open these files without having to go through the process mentioned above. It appears that most if not all answers in the community point to the files being corrupted.

I'm hoping to get a better explaination or some insight as to why this may be casued and hopefully a solution to avoid needing to convert these files with a non Adobe product.

Thank You

Amal. · Answer

Hi @Robseb

Hope you are doing well and thanks for reaching out.

Error 109 - Object label badly formatted means that one of the PDF files is corrupt, and unfortunately there is not much you can do about that. One problem with corrupt files is that they may seem fine unless you want to do something that actually requires that corrupt piece of data (in your case, you are trying to merge the files, which requires Acrobat to look at every single piece of data in both files).

Your best bet is to go back to the generating application and recreate the PDF file.

Hope this information will help

Regards

Amal

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