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Is there a way to find a corrupt page in a PDF using Adobe Acrobat Pro?

New Here ,
Jan 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018

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Everyday I am sent two or three PDF documents with over 3000 pages and I am told that at least one of those pages is corrupt which therefore means that the document will not print. The only way I know to find the page number of this page is to print the document through the Adobe PDF Printer and wait until it fails, then look at the page number it failed on, go to that page and remove it.

What I want to know is, is there a better way of automating this process. The corrupt page is always to do with an image that is on that page. Is there anyway to use preflight to find the corrupt page/s.

My next question is, if there is a way of automating this, or not, is there any code (preferably C#) that would allow me to integrate this process into a bit of software so that I can remove the page using my program and replace it with a different one.

The only other fix I can think of is if there is some way of accessing some kind of printing log. Therefore, still using the Adobe PDF Printer, somehow starting that process up using c# and then accessing the log files while its running. That way what ever page number the printing bombs out on, I can record that and use it.

Any help at all would be appreciated as I have found no way round this online anywhere

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Adobe Employee , Feb 14, 2018 Feb 14, 2018

Hi Ign3u5,

You may use "Report PDF syntax issues" option under preflight as the following threads discuss:

Detecting Corrupt PDF Files

How to check a pdf file if not corrupt? (Acrobat Reader)

Thanks,

Shivam

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LEGEND ,
Jan 10, 2018 Jan 10, 2018

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Please tell us (a) which software you are using to print, including version and (b) exactly what message you get about pages being corrupt. This is not a familiar message to me, but it may be that when I know what message you get I'll go "aha" (quietly).

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New Here ,
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A) Adobe Acrobat Pro DC version 2018.009.20050

B) Insufficient data for an image is the one I get regularly

Proper impressed by the quick reply btw

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Hi Ign3u5,

You may use "Report PDF syntax issues" option under preflight as the following threads discuss:

Detecting Corrupt PDF Files

How to check a pdf file if not corrupt? (Acrobat Reader)

Thanks,

Shivam

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Jun 29, 2021 Jun 29, 2021

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Hi, I have the same issue and it's not picked up when preflighting for syntax. The document fails to print once it reaches a specific page. The only way round I've found so far is to convert it to PDF/X-1a, one of the fix ups in this profile resolves things though I havent narrowed it down to which one yet.

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