Using preflight

Hello
I have a PDF which passes its Preflight check when i open in Acrobat 10 but if i then use the Measuring tool and then after run the same preflight Analyse it fails and tells me its not a comliant PDF/x-1a document.
I dont understand why this is , as i did not think that using the measuring tool would make any chnages to the PDF and thus causing it to fail.
Any ideas?

Measurements apply annotations which aren't compatible with the PDF/X-1a standard, and require the PDF base version to increase when it's saved.
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