Add a public comment to this FAQ. Related Topics. Electronic Resources E-books. Contact Us. Brunel Library. Privacy notice. Powered by Springshare ; All rights reserved. Report a tech support issue. Login to LibApps. There is an inbuilt technique to repair the Adobe Repair. You should use it to handle such error messages-. A simple solution for this error message can be the quick removal of the temporary files from the Internet Browser.
They may be slowing down the performance of the browser and stopping the PDF file download. You should check the integrity of the Adobe Reader Installation.
But, if Google Chrome fails to open the PDF file, then you should either download the file again or check the browser settings. Generally, the above-mentioned error occurs when the user has web access and is exporting the documents as the PDF file.
Sometimes the PDF file is not editable file, and the user cannot change the contents of a file. If your file has some useful part that you want to access separately from the file, then you can extract it using some open-source and paid software. If you do not want to take the risk of data theft from these sources, then you can simply copy and paste the content.
A PDF is created and designed in the Adobe Reader Pro, and if your file is missing some fonts at various places, then you can fix it easily. If you use images and graphics in a document and lower their scale significantly, it increases the resolution and causes such error. This error is due to the bad Postscript code.
If you have multiple printers attached to your system, then you can change the printer and get rid of the error. If you were updating the Adobe Acrobat and it terminated abruptly, it will create more problems for the existing version.
It can corrupt the application setup and various files and projects that you use with the application. The user should disable the Full Save option in the ReaderExtensions tool; then, it will enable the incremental save feature for PDF files.
Thus, the chances of file corruption or error are reduced. When the Adobe Acrobat Reader users try to open PDF files from other sources like Outlook, then it may show an error due to the protection mode enabled for such activities at the software startup. If the PDF file shows errors for invalid volume and invalid path or invalid character, then you can remove the fault lines based on the error type. For an invalid path or volume, you can change the path and volume by downloading the PDF file again.
If you want to save files on the local drive of your machine. The "Save" option would be activated only if you made some changes to the opened document. As you have mentioned that the "Save as" windows open as blank, please try the following steps:. Thanks, Anand, this is an old post, but unchecking the box for "Show online storage when saving files" worked for me a treat - how nice to get such a quick fix - much appreciated!
Can you please walk me through the steps of finding the box that says "Show online storage when saving files"? I can't seem to find that box to uncheck. I should add I did the steps as mentioned above and did not see anything that said that exact statement. Found it, but it didn't help. Same blank box. It worked to Save As just the other day, but now there must be a glitch, since other people are experiencing problems as well. Please check the Acrobat version you are using currently.
If you are using Acrobat version Hi Anna-lisa, you have to change the security settings in Windows 10 in order to be able to save after editing;. I am having this same issue. I have the latest version,I have unchecked show online storage box.
None of this works. I can not save a pdf to my laptop, anywhere. This all started Jan 1 , This is very frustrating. I save 's of pdfs daily after I edit them for my compnay. What is going on. And then there's Photoshop, which among many other problems also will not let you save anything I installed the latest version but still untick as you mentioned but still it didnt worked.
Any other option how to fix it? Just yesterday this started happening. I have the latest version of Acrobat and unchecked the box as instructed above. When I save, I get a message "An error was encountered when saving the document. Actually, you are not alone and many Windows users have reported this issue. For documents, the PDF format is one of the most popular formats and it captures all the elements of a printed document as an electronic image.
You can view, print, navigate, or forward a PDF file to someone else. Actually, this error can affect other browsers like Firefox or Opera and other applications that can handle PDF files.
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