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Hi, All,
We aren't sure if this is a FM issue or a Reader issue, but thought I'd post it here to see if anyone's seen anything similar.
We create our documents in FM 9 and save them as PDFs we distribute to our editors. Recently, we've been getting complaints from our PDF editors (using Adobe Reader 9) with a variety of weird errors and corruptions going on. One user edited the PDF, saved it, attempted to close it, and received a corruption error and found some edits were missing. Another user edited, saved, closed, reopened, and got an error about unknown objects and none of the edits were available. Still another user wasn't able to save the edited PDF file, locally or to our network. None of these appear to be related to permissions, read locks, or file location.
This could easily be gremlins in our system, since everything's just a tad random, but after finding nothing in the forums, I was wondering if others were having or had seen any of these or something similar.
Thanks in advance for any thoughts!
-Jenn

One of my clients reported the same problem. (Different versions of FrameMaker are used to author files that are then converted to PDF)
Having end-users revert to Adobe Reader 8 seemed to solve this problem.
An immediate workaround when someone comes across this problem is as follows:
Do not close the corrupt PDF
Export comments by selecting Acrobat Comments > Export Comment to Data File
(the exported comments (fdf file) can also be sent to you)
Re-open the original file and save with a different name
Import the comments into the new copy by selecting Comments > Import comments.
Save the file.
It is possible that this problem is caused because of the way Acrobat saves changes to a PDF. Essentially, all changes are accumulated in a way that does not remove editing history ("incremental save"). Using the "Save As" function, overwriting the same file, removes all editing history and rewrites the entire file (which is why "Save As" is slower than "Save"). I recommend that your editors do a "Save As" once in a while -- you may find that this alone will resolve the problem.
Please share your results, as this is an issue that other uses have encountered.
Shlomo Perets, http://www.microtype.com
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