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

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!

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.

I have the same problem. As others discribe It seems to happen on scanned and OCR-runned files, in pages with line/arrow/typewriter annotation tools.

Both Pro and reader crashes. SumatraPDF can open the files but without annotations. I downloaded PDF-XChange Viewer, this thing can open the file with the annotations and I can save the file i have not tried to fix it so that can open it in Acrobat again.

I just cant belive this problem has not been fixed, its been around for years. Adobe blaims other software, but thats just bull. Apperently it can fixed from their side anyways. I've lost days and days on this bug.

Again, very annoying numerous pop-up "Invalid Annotation Object" errors. Try all steps above, reinstall Acrobat and the problem still exist. Wasting too much time on troubleshooting the unsolved problems.

Agree with qzmufu & Larss1, the problem was not solved for years.

Problem solved by using PDF-XChange Viewer, and may decide to purchase PDF-XChange Pro.

P.s. I was an Adobe supporter and never use any other 3rd parties PDF software before. But now, with all these disappointment had lead me to other PDF software which is less error, more reliable and not so costly as well.

This thread has been helpful. But exporting the comments and importing into a fresh PDF only preserves comments. Bookmarks are lost.

I have been having Error 14 repeatedly as well for no good reason. The affected PDFs were not emailed or sent over the internet, I do not use a 3rd party reader (though I use Evermap plugin), and the only annotation objects I use are highlights, comments, and the typewriter, headers.pre

Sometimes when I try to extract each page separately to identify the offending annotation, I get a "bad parameter" error right at the outset.

Error 14 arises whether Acrobat has or has not peviously crashed.

Upgrading to 10.1.2 does not help.

It happens on my desktop as well as netbook, both running on Win 7.

The affected PDFs were usually, but not always, created from Word.

I can't for the life of me figure out what's causing it.

Jay

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...

Examine Document is now called "Remove Hidden Information" in Acrobat X, it's under the Protection tab.

http://www.pdfforlawyers.com/2010/12/removing-pdf-metadata-document-ma rkups-using-acrobat.html

Is there a way to fix this issue and keep all of the annotations and status as one comment?  If I save out of Preview the statuses are placed as separate annotations.  (It is not an option to remove all annotations)

This problem seems to occur with PDFs that have annotation that contain key command symbols like ® or ©.

If I have what you're trying to do correctly, you're trying to prevent losing the comments from a document that is corrupted/is giving you an error.

What I did, and worked successfully was, extract the comments from the 'currupt' document then import them into a working version of that document (maybe an earlier version). I don't know if this matters, but I'm currently running Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro.

How I did this:

From the program's tool bar at the top I selected Comments > Export Comments to Data File... > and saved to my desktop (or wherever you want). I then opened a working version of the document (doesn't matter if the pages matched up perfectly as the program figured it out) and imported them the same way. From the toolbar I selected Comments > Import Comments... and that's all there was to it.

Hope this helps some folks out.