Tuesday, 22 July 2014

Acrobat PDF - Bad Parameter Issue

I've seen many facing the strange "Bad Parameters" issue with their PDF file in Adobe Acrobat. But I have yet not seen any official word from Adobe describing what it is and how it could be fixed. Anyways I have found my own workaround to the problem which I am sharing now. I hope this might be helpful to somebody.

Symptoms : You do either of Insert Pages, Extract Pages or Delete Pages on a PDF file in Acrobat. This action would pop up a strange Bad Parameter error as shown below. It is also observed that this error mostly occurs if the PDF Producer is not Adobe. Example - if someone has used the SaveAs PDF utility of MS Word to create the PDF.

Bad Parameter Issue
Bad Parameter Issue









Platform : I know of Windows 7. Have not tried on others.

Solution :

  • Do a right click on the black left vertical column of the Acrobat and select Tags.
Select Tags
Select Tags























  • From the dialog box that appears, select Tags. Do a right click and click Delete Tags.
    Delete Tag
    Delete Tag





















  • That's it!! Close the dialog and try again. The Bad Parameter issue must have been gone by now.

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