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December 21, 2018
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"There was an error reading a stream" and "Insufficient data for an image”.

  • December 21, 2018
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Hi,

Our business is having an issue with Adobe Acrobat Pro standalone (2015).  The software is up to date as of today, version 15.006.30461.

We are getting these pop-up error messages when attempting to open documents: "There was an error reading a stream" and "Insufficient data for an image”.  We seem to be getting these issues primarily with PDFs produced from scanned documents, but occasionally get the same issues with other PDFs.

We work with a lot of PDFs so it is hard to tell sometimes whether a specific PDF is causing issue.  As of our current project we are dealing with scanned document PDFs from multiple clients and seem to be having trouble with all of them.  The issue sometimes happens if multiple PDFs are open at the same time, but also has happened with just 1 or 2 PDFs open.  Sometimes the issue happens when the files are open for an extended period of time, but it also happens when you are attempting the open a document for the first time after a reboot.

The documents are stored on our networks business file server.  There are not any apparent issues with our network – everything else appears to behave normally.  We have only recently started having this issue in the last month.

I have software that monitors our PCs, all of the PCs in question average less than 50% memory usage and 50% or more of the SSD drive space is free.  So this issue is happening when there is plenty of available PC resources.

All of the PCs are new Optiplex 7060 that we started using earlier this year.

Windows 10, full up-to-date.

All drivers are fully up-to-date. 

Here are the hardware specs:

Processor: Intel i7-8700 @ 3.2GHz

Memory: 16GB (2x8GB)

SSD: Toshiba XG5 NVMe PCIe M.2 256GB

Graphics: AMD Radeon RX 550

NIC: 1 Gigabit Ethernet (i.e., not using WiFi)

I've seen posts in the past related to similar issue so I'm hopeful that you can determine and resolve the issue quickly.

Thanks!

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2 replies

michaelh73245076
Participant
June 13, 2019

We are using Acrobat Pro DC, get the same error.  Documents open fine, then after  a while when you go to access an open document we get the error.  I suspect there is a memory leak somewhere as it seems to happen after Acrobat has been open for a while, typically will happen in the morning the next day after documents worked fine the night before

Meenakshi Negi
Community Manager
Community Manager
June 21, 2019

Hi Michaelh,

Sorry for the delay in response.

As you get the error message as mentioned above, would you please help us with more details as asked below:

- What is the current version of the application? To check the version number, take help of the steps provided here Identify the product and its version for Acrobat and Reader DC

- Are you on Windows or Mac? What is the OS version on the machine?

- Do you get this error randomly on any PDF or with some particular documents?

- Are those PDFs saved locally on the machine or on a shared drive?

- Do you experience this issue on a machine at work or on a personal machine?

We will be waiting for your response.

Regards,

Meenakshi

Participant
February 16, 2023

I am getting this error when reopening a PDF from a server location via a VPN tunnel after Laptop standby mode. Acrobat Pro 2017. Was this solved?

 

Participant
January 18, 2019

Can anybody from Adobe please chime in?
A Manager in our company is having this same issue, and this was not touched upon for almost a month.