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"Invalid Annotation Object" error

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November 15, 2008
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I'm using Windows XP Pro (SP3) on a 2.66 GHz, 2 GB RAM computer, and while working in an Adobe Acrobat 9 document, I had just saved the file (CTRL+S) and the document froze and I got a Windows error box that asked if I wanted to send an error report, which I did. When I opened Adobe again, it asked if I wanted to open the last file which didn't save correctly, which I did.

Then when I proceeded to work in the document and tried to highlight a sentence I was going to delete, I got an Adobe Acrobat popup box that said "Invalid Annotation Object. OK" but no matter how many times I clicked on "OK," the box kept popping up and wouldn't go away. I tried saving a copy of the document, but the same box was in it and wouldn't go away. I couldn't even work in the document to extract pages or anything else. Huge problem!

Does anyone know what can I do to resolve this problem? (This happened on a Saturday when Adobe phone support is not accessible.)

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Correct answer _Roseo_

I have researched this some...I have found a 99% solution, and will be in further contact with Adobe tomorrow.

The 99% solution...if Adobe crashes while you are working on a document (firstly, pray like anything you have saved it recently...) before working on your document again, open up a random PDF after the crash, then close adobe...so that it has closed normally, without crashing.

Now open your document. 80% of the time your document will not have corrupted if you follow this method. Unfortunately, if it does corrupt, you have to find the corrupt page or pages - easiest way I found was to navigate using the up/down arrows rather than scrolling. You then have to delete these pages, and re-insert clean ones.

You won't be able to reinsert until after all the corrupted ones have been deleted.

This is just my solution so far and not anything Adobe have told me, so if this is a fluke just for me I apologise.......

Good luck! I will be speaking to Adobe AT LENGTH re this tomorrow so fingers crossed....

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aowie1

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Im not sure of the details of the rest of everyone else's problems, but here is a similar problem + resolution I have found:

Problem:

Generated a PDF using Indesign and submitted it for a shared review. Comments were published by reviewers and as I went through to view them all, Adobe Acrobat 9.3.2 crashed. Upon reopening the file, whenever I rolled over comment objects or scrolled through pages, I would get the "Invalid Object Annotation" error. I could not just delete the comments or the document as they were very sensitive data. I could not extract the comments because the menu item was disabled...

Solution:

Because the file was created by me, the tracker defaultly opened the local version of it. But if you open the file via a browser from the server (using the link you sent for your shared review, or find it on the server) the errors will not appear. To restore your local copy, simply save (and overwrite) over your local copy fromt the one you opened in the browser.

It seems the errors occur locally only and in the process of the corruption, the PDF was unlinked and comments no longer sync.

Many of you wont have the luxury of doing this, as you aren't using a shared review via a server. But if you submitted this for review at all to others, it might be possible for you to contact those you have sent it to and have them send back the working copy for you to overwrite over your corrupted version.

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DLMoshak

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Hello,

I've discovered a really quick fix if you happen to have MAC hardware at your disposal:

If you have a Macintosh handy, and you open the offending file with the Macintosh "Preview" applicatio...you can then "Save as" to make a new copy of the file .pdf.

This new file can then be sucessfully opened with Adobe Acrobat Pro (on either Windows or Mac) and the "Invalid Annotation Object" error is now gone. No loss of data and no loss of previous annotations was observed.

Good Luck.

-Damian

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Pepe?

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Please see DLMoshak "really quick fix" above--post #20

wow! great fix! After scouring forums til my eyes were bleeding I just tried your "open in Preview and save" fix. It worked! THANKS! (I had a 75 page document/catalog with and index that contained about 500 (no kidding) links to destinations that I did not look forward to rebuilding!)

Afterthought: I see that my "saved from Preview" document has had all the "Destinations" removed. The links still work but future editing will be limited. Although I suppose I can just edit my original and then save it through preview again...

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stephen2936

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This error appears repetitively for no reason; I have read the messages in this thread. Is there no-one at Adobe who would like to investigate this problem. I have already (re)installed Acrobat 8 with a view to stepping back till this and other instability problems are solved. Help please Adobe!

Stephen Grime

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_Holger_Wulf_

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Acrobat>
Edit>
Preferences>
Commenting>

Uncheck the following boxes:

Enable text Indicators and tool tips

Ensure that popups are visible as the document is scrolled

OK>

Select the "Select Object Tool" on the "Advanced Editing" toolbar and then delete the comments on the problem pages.

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davidsdomingo

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Here is a technique for identifying all the pages that have invalid annotation objects on them:

1. Document > Extract Pages ...

Select the checkbox for "Extract Pages As Separate Files"
Set the destination to a 'dedicated' folder that won't contain any other files -- that way, you can simply delete the folder when this process is done.
Click OK.

2. During the extraction, click OK in all the message boxes that appear.

3. After the extraction, look in the destination folder to see which pages are missing. Those are the pages that have invalid annotation objects.

From this point you can try to delete the objects, or simply delete and replace the pages, or implement a different solution. Hope this helps someone.

brennao

Participating Frequently

There are at least two posts here with ideas on how to actually fix a file with this problem. Thank you! I will be trying these in the future.

I just finished fixing a 332 page file with this problem by extracting groups of pages, then saving the extractions. The ones that would not save had bad pages in them. I did this for 45 minutes, narrowing down my groups until I had the 4 offending pages/annotations. Then I combined all the extractions. This method worked, but the others listed here seem less time consuming!

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Bill Kulsrud

Participating Frequently

I had the same problem and lost a full day of work.

All of my documents have been created with Acrobat 9 Pro running Windows XP. I continue to have the problem (invalid annotation object) so I just save often and save under another name. I haven't found a successful fix. I have found that 9 Pro is a very unstable product when compared to the previous version (with which I never had a problem). It is constantly crashing.

Bill

Allta Media

Community Expert

Are these files created using an Adobe product or a third-party tool?

In the Preflight tools for Acrobat 9 Pro. there is a fixup tool to "Repair damaged document" -- it's for minor repairs. In the Preflight menu select the Profiles tab and then select "Single Fix Ups". It's listed under the Document row.

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Anonymous

Hi LoriAUC,

Do you know which is the equivalent for "single-fix ups" in Acrobat 10?

I ran the syntax analysis and it found these issues (screenshot below):

I'm not sure though if these are just trivial problems or the ones that could be the cause of the Error 14.

It did, however, seem to have gotten rid of the Error 14 for now, but when I try to extract pages I still get the "bad parameter" error.

Regards,

Jay

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_PUCK_96_

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found another, free, repair program but it found "no errors". It seems that I have 3 related problems:

1."The document could not be saved. There was a problem reading this document (14)."

2."Invalid annotation object."

3."The document could not be printed." &
"There were no pages selected to print."

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_PUCK_96_

Participant

Does "Advanced PDF Repair" work?

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_Rob_Forrest_

Participant

A work around I found for a 476 page book was to simply page through until you found the offending page then extract all pages (select save as individual pages) then recreate the file. Hopefully you have a clean file that you can use to insert the missing or offending pages. This was the only way I could a file that became corrupted while the author was inputting edits to the layout. The Author was using the free reader version so the "enable for commenting in reader" function had been used. The file would not allow me to save it in any way.
In my scenario it worked...good luck.

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_Diane_Serafin_Author

Participant

Bill: I have had it happen to me more than once. The only way I've in some ways "resolved" it is to have a business associate of mine take the file and open it in a Mac format and extract the pages and clean up the file for me to start over in. He suggests saving all files with a new name every now and then (every half hour or whatever) as you work in them. So, now that's just what I do. Apparently Windows has more problems with these types of issues than Mac. I might have to go Mac next computer. (sigh)

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