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Acrobat 9 Pro - Can't delete pages

SLB
Registered: Nov 14 2008
Posts: 28

Can't delete a page. Get message "bad parameter" for one page. If I insert a page from another file, I can delete that one but not the one in the document I want to.

I have created a pdf fill in book (300pgs) with lots of fill in. I can insert, but can't extract, replace, or delete a page now. What happened? I tried everything I know to do without success. There is no security on this doc. Help.

I created the original pdf from Word 2007. Since then I have added all the fill-ins; and I don't want to start over in Word.

What is odd about the current pdf is...after I worked on it, cleaning up fields, using text and object editors; deleting and insert two budget tables; and finished it out, I did a save, then a save as to create an excerpt for promoting the book. And that's the one I am working in right now.

I may have to do a work around by saving Word doc as a pdf again and start inserting targeted pages in the excerpt doc from the original fill-in doc I finished.

Any ideas?

My Product Information:
Acrobat Pro 9.2, Windows
thomp
Expert
Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
If you do a lot of work on a PDF, inserting and deleting both pages and content, you can inadvertantly screw things up to the point where Acrobat is having problems figuring out how to handle the document. The best strategy is to make all content changes in the original format, reconvert the PDF, and then do a replace pages into the working PDF (the one you put the form fields on). If you've added new pages in the original document, then insert blank pages into the working PDF in the correct locations before doing the replace pages. The idea is to keep the page content as clean as possible.

There are some things you can try to fix the mucked up PDF.
1. Run the Optimizer on the file.
2. Flatten out all Layers
3. Open and Optimize the PDF in an earlier Acrobat version.
4. Create a Fresh new working PDF form the doc file and then manually
copy over the form fields from the old working PDF.

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
[url=http://www.pdfScripting.com]pdfscripting.com[/url]

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[url=http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php]http://www.adobe.com/devnet/acrobat/javascript.php[/url]

Then most important JavaScript Development tool in Acrobat
[url=http://www.pdfscripting.com/public/34.cfm#JSIntro][b]The Console Window (Video tutorial)[/b][/url]
[url=http://www.acrobatusers.com/tutorials/2006/javascript_console][b]The Console Window(article)[/b][/url]

Thom Parker
The source for PDF Scripting Info
www.pdfscripting.com
Very Important - How to Debug Your Script

jan527
Registered: May 25 2011
Posts: 2
Can you give us laymen some tips we can understand?

jan527