The Problem: You attempt to save a dynamically generated pdf built from a website and get the error “The document could not be saved, a number is out of range”
The Cause: Incompatibility of settings between the version of Acrobat that created the pdf and the version of Acrobat that is being used to view the pdf
The Solution: Go to preferences, go to “General” and uncheck “Save As optimizes for Fast Web View” and see if that fixes the problem. HT Planet PDF for the tip.
This post originally appeared on the Stronico blog – with the absorption of Stronico into Digital Tool Factory this post has been moved to the Digital Tool Factory blog
Written By Steve French
17 Responses to “How to fix the Adobe Acrobat “Save As” error”
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This worked great. I’ve been having this problem for months! Thanks!
Glad I could be of help!
Oh wow, thank you so much for that tip. I was having trouble with that error and it was quickly resolved using your advice.
Thanks! Easy n fast removed this problem.
worked like a charm, thanks; one thing, though – if you are using acrobat 9 (windows), look not under the General tab but the Documents tab from within Preferences
thanks a million, worked like a charm.
Wonderful, thanks!
You’re a genius! Thanks.
It worked, thanks.
It did not work for me.
There is a mistake in tehse instructions! The “Save As optimizes for Fast Web View” is not under general in preferences, but under the Docuemnts tab. So go to Edit-Preferences-Documents and then uncheck the “Save As optimizes for Fast Web View”.
Than your problem is fixed!
Been beating my head against the desk for an hour! Thanks for the fix!!!!
It worked perfectly (and quickly). Thank you so much!
For me, it just changed to a different error: “A file I/O error has occurred.”
This problem has been irritating me for some time now. THANK YOU!!!!
Thanks! this was the solution!!
Excellent! This has been bugging me for weeks!