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  • Acrobat User Guide
    1. Access Acrobat from desktop, mobile, web
    2. Introducing the new Acrobat experience
    3. What's new in Acrobat
    4. Keyboard shortcuts
    5. System Requirements
    6. Download Adobe Acrobat
    7. Download Acrobat | Enterprise term or VIP license
    8. Download Acrobat 64-bit for Windows
    9. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader | Windows
    10. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader | Mac OS
    11. Install updates for Acrobat and Reader
    12. Update your Acrobat to the latest version
    13. Download Acrobat 2020
    14. Release Notes | Acrobat, Reader
    1. Workspace basics
      1. Opening PDFs
      2. Navigating PDF pages
      3. Viewing PDF preferences
      4. Adjusting PDF views
      5. Enable thumbnail preview of PDFs
      6. Display PDF in browser
      1. Access files from Box
      2. Access files from Dropbox
      3. Access files from OneDrive
      4. Access files from SharePoint
      5. Access files from Google Drive
    4. Acrobat and macOS
    5. Acrobat notifications
    6. Grids, guides, and measurements in PDFs
    7. Asian, Cyrillic, and right-to-left text in PDFs
    8. Adobe Acrobat for Outlook
    9. Set Acrobat as default PDF viewer
    10. Explore Acrobat tools
    1. Overview of PDF creation
    2. Create PDFs with Acrobat
    3. Create PDFs with PDFMaker
    4. Using the Adobe PDF printer
    5. Converting web pages to PDF
    6. Creating PDFs with Acrobat Distiller
    7. Adobe PDF conversion settings
    8. PDF fonts
    1. Edit text in PDFs
    2. Edit images or objects in a PDF
    3. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
    4. Edit scanned PDFs
    5. Enhance document photos captured using a mobile camera
    6. Optimizing PDFs
    7. PDF properties and metadata
    8. Links and attachments in PDFs
    9. PDF layers
    10. Page thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs
    11. PDFs converted to web pages
    12. Setting up PDFs for a presentation
    13. PDF articles
    14. Geospatial PDFs
    15. Applying actions and scripts to PDFs
    16. Change the default font for adding text
    17. Delete pages from a PDF
    18. Edit a signed PDF | FAQ
    1. Scan documents to PDF
    2. Enhance document photos
    3. Troubleshoot scanner issues when scanning using Acrobat
    1. PDF forms basics
    2. Create a form from scratch in Acrobat
    3. Create and distribute PDF forms
    4. Fill in PDF forms
    5. PDF form field properties
    6. Fill and sign PDF forms
    7. Setting action buttons in PDF forms
    8. Publishing interactive PDF web forms
    9. PDF form field basics
    10. PDF barcode form fields
    11. Collect and manage PDF form data
    12. About forms tracker
    13. PDF forms help
    14. Send PDF forms to recipients using email or an internal server
    1. Combine or merge files into single PDF
    2. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
    3. Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
    4. Crop PDF pages
    5. Add watermarks to PDFs
    6. Add backgrounds to PDFs
    7. Working with component files in a PDF Portfolio
    8. Publish and share PDF Portfolios
    9. Overview of PDF Portfolios
    10. Create and customize PDF Portfolios
    1. Share and track PDFs online
    2. Mark up text with edits
    3. Preparing for a PDF review
    4. Starting a PDF review
    5. Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites
    6. Participating in a PDF review
    7. Add comments to PDFs
    8. Adding a stamp to a PDF
    9. Approval workflows
    10. Managing comments | view, reply, print
    11. Importing and exporting comments
    12. Tracking and managing PDF reviews
    1. Saving PDFs
    2. Convert PDF to Word
    3. Convert PDF to PPTX
    4. Convert PDF to XLSX or XML
    5. Convert PDF to JPEG
    6. Convert PDF to TIFF
    7. Convert PDF to PNG
    8. Convert or export PDFs to other file formats
    9. File format options for PDF export
    10. Reusing PDF content
    1. Enhanced security setting for PDFs
    2. Securing PDFs with passwords
    3. Manage Digital IDs
    4. Securing PDFs with certificates
    5. Opening secured PDFs
    6. Removing sensitive content from PDFs
    7. Setting up security policies for PDFs
    8. Choosing a security method for PDFs
    9. Security warnings when a PDF opens
    10. Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager
    11. Protected View feature for PDFs
    12. Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
    13. JavaScripts in PDFs as a security risk
    14. Attachments as security risks
    15. Allow or block links in PDFs
    16. Edit secured PDFs
    1. Sign PDF documents
    2. Capture your signature on mobile and use it everywhere
    3. Send documents for e-signatures
    4. Create a web form
    5. Request e-signatures in bulk
    6. Collect online payments
    7. Brand your account
    8. About certificate signatures
    9. Certificate-based signatures
    10. Validating digital signatures
    11. Adobe Approved Trust List
    12. Manage trusted identities
    1. Basic PDF printing tasks
    2. Print Booklets and PDF Portfolios
    3. Advanced PDF print settings
    4. Print to PDF
    5. Printing color PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
    6. Printing PDFs in custom sizes
    7. Scale or resize PDF pages
    1. Create and verify PDF accessibility
    2. Accessibility features in PDFs
    3. Reading Order tool for PDFs
    4. Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features
    5. Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels
    6. Creating accessible PDFs
    7. Cloud-based auto-tagging
    1. Creating PDF indexes
    2. Searching PDFs
    1. Add audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
    2. Adding 3D models to PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
    3. Displaying 3D models in PDFs
    4. Interacting with 3D models
    5. Measuring 3D objects in PDFs
    6. Setting 3D views in PDFs
    7. Enable 3D content in PDF
    8. Adding multimedia to PDFs
    9. Commenting on 3D designs in PDFs
    10. Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats in PDFs
    11. Add comments to videos
    1. Print production tools overview
    2. Printer marks and hairlines
    3. Previewing output
    4. Transparency flattening
    5. Color conversion and ink management
    6. Trapping color
    1. PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/E-compliant files
    2. Preflight profiles
    3. Advanced preflight inspections
    4. Preflight reports
    5. Viewing preflight results, objects, and resources
    6. Output intents in PDFs
    7. Correcting problem areas with the Preflight tool
    8. Automating document analysis with droplets or preflight actions
    9. Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool
    10. Additional checks in the Preflight tool
    11. Preflight libraries
    12. Preflight variables
    1. Keeping colors consistent
    2. Color settings
    3. Color-managing documents
    4. Working with color profiles
    5. Understanding color management
  • Troubleshoot
    1. Troubleshoot PDF printing in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader
    2. Adobe Acrobat license has either expired or not been activated
    3. Edit PDF forms created in LiveCycle Designer
    4. Insufficient data for an image error on Adobe Acrobat
    5. Resolve errors related to the AcroCEF/RdrCEF processes of Acrobat or Acrobat Reader
    1. Acrobat User Guide
      1. Access Acrobat from desktop, mobile, web
      2. Introducing the new Acrobat experience
      3. What's new in Acrobat
      4. Keyboard shortcuts
      5. System Requirements
      6. Download Adobe Acrobat
      7. Download Acrobat | Enterprise term or VIP license
      8. Download Acrobat 64-bit for Windows
      9. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader | Windows
      10. Install Adobe Acrobat Reader | Mac OS
      11. Install updates for Acrobat and Reader
      12. Update your Acrobat to the latest version
      13. Download Acrobat 2020
      14. Release Notes | Acrobat, Reader
      1. Workspace basics
        1. Opening PDFs
        2. Navigating PDF pages
        3. Viewing PDF preferences
        4. Adjusting PDF views
        5. Enable thumbnail preview of PDFs
        6. Display PDF in browser
        1. Access files from Box
        2. Access files from Dropbox
        3. Access files from OneDrive
        4. Access files from SharePoint
        5. Access files from Google Drive
      4. Acrobat and macOS
      5. Acrobat notifications
      6. Grids, guides, and measurements in PDFs
      7. Asian, Cyrillic, and right-to-left text in PDFs
      8. Adobe Acrobat for Outlook
      9. Set Acrobat as default PDF viewer
      10. Explore Acrobat tools
      1. Overview of PDF creation
      2. Create PDFs with Acrobat
      3. Create PDFs with PDFMaker
      4. Using the Adobe PDF printer
      5. Converting web pages to PDF
      6. Creating PDFs with Acrobat Distiller
      7. Adobe PDF conversion settings
      8. PDF fonts
      1. Edit text in PDFs
      2. Edit images or objects in a PDF
      3. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
      4. Edit scanned PDFs
      5. Enhance document photos captured using a mobile camera
      6. Optimizing PDFs
      7. PDF properties and metadata
      8. Links and attachments in PDFs
      9. PDF layers
      10. Page thumbnails and bookmarks in PDFs
      11. PDFs converted to web pages
      12. Setting up PDFs for a presentation
      13. PDF articles
      14. Geospatial PDFs
      15. Applying actions and scripts to PDFs
      16. Change the default font for adding text
      17. Delete pages from a PDF
      18. Edit a signed PDF | FAQ
      1. Scan documents to PDF
      2. Enhance document photos
      3. Troubleshoot scanner issues when scanning using Acrobat
      1. PDF forms basics
      2. Create a form from scratch in Acrobat
      3. Create and distribute PDF forms
      4. Fill in PDF forms
      5. PDF form field properties
      6. Fill and sign PDF forms
      7. Setting action buttons in PDF forms
      8. Publishing interactive PDF web forms
      9. PDF form field basics
      10. PDF barcode form fields
      11. Collect and manage PDF form data
      12. About forms tracker
      13. PDF forms help
      14. Send PDF forms to recipients using email or an internal server
      1. Combine or merge files into single PDF
      2. Rotate, move, delete, and renumber PDF pages
      3. Add headers, footers, and Bates numbering to PDFs
      4. Crop PDF pages
      5. Add watermarks to PDFs
      6. Add backgrounds to PDFs
      7. Working with component files in a PDF Portfolio
      8. Publish and share PDF Portfolios
      9. Overview of PDF Portfolios
      10. Create and customize PDF Portfolios
      1. Share and track PDFs online
      2. Mark up text with edits
      3. Preparing for a PDF review
      4. Starting a PDF review
      5. Hosting shared reviews on SharePoint or Office 365 sites
      6. Participating in a PDF review
      7. Add comments to PDFs
      8. Adding a stamp to a PDF
      9. Approval workflows
      10. Managing comments | view, reply, print
      11. Importing and exporting comments
      12. Tracking and managing PDF reviews
      1. Saving PDFs
      2. Convert PDF to Word
      3. Convert PDF to PPTX
      4. Convert PDF to XLSX or XML
      5. Convert PDF to JPEG
      6. Convert PDF to TIFF
      7. Convert PDF to PNG
      8. Convert or export PDFs to other file formats
      9. File format options for PDF export
      10. Reusing PDF content
      1. Enhanced security setting for PDFs
      2. Securing PDFs with passwords
      3. Manage Digital IDs
      4. Securing PDFs with certificates
      5. Opening secured PDFs
      6. Removing sensitive content from PDFs
      7. Setting up security policies for PDFs
      8. Choosing a security method for PDFs
      9. Security warnings when a PDF opens
      10. Securing PDFs with Adobe Experience Manager
      11. Protected View feature for PDFs
      12. Overview of security in Acrobat and PDFs
      13. JavaScripts in PDFs as a security risk
      14. Attachments as security risks
      15. Allow or block links in PDFs
      16. Edit secured PDFs
      1. Sign PDF documents
      2. Capture your signature on mobile and use it everywhere
      3. Send documents for e-signatures
      4. Create a web form
      5. Request e-signatures in bulk
      6. Collect online payments
      7. Brand your account
      8. About certificate signatures
      9. Certificate-based signatures
      10. Validating digital signatures
      11. Adobe Approved Trust List
      12. Manage trusted identities
      1. Basic PDF printing tasks
      2. Print Booklets and PDF Portfolios
      3. Advanced PDF print settings
      4. Print to PDF
      5. Printing color PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
      6. Printing PDFs in custom sizes
      7. Scale or resize PDF pages
      1. Create and verify PDF accessibility
      2. Accessibility features in PDFs
      3. Reading Order tool for PDFs
      4. Reading PDFs with reflow and accessibility features
      5. Edit document structure with the Content and Tags panels
      6. Creating accessible PDFs
      7. Cloud-based auto-tagging
      1. Creating PDF indexes
      2. Searching PDFs
      1. Add audio, video, and interactive objects to PDFs
      2. Adding 3D models to PDFs (Acrobat Pro)
      3. Displaying 3D models in PDFs
      4. Interacting with 3D models
      5. Measuring 3D objects in PDFs
      6. Setting 3D views in PDFs
      7. Enable 3D content in PDF
      8. Adding multimedia to PDFs
      9. Commenting on 3D designs in PDFs
      10. Playing video, audio, and multimedia formats in PDFs
      11. Add comments to videos
      1. Print production tools overview
      2. Printer marks and hairlines
      3. Previewing output
      4. Transparency flattening
      5. Color conversion and ink management
      6. Trapping color
      1. PDF/X-, PDF/A-, and PDF/E-compliant files
      2. Preflight profiles
      3. Advanced preflight inspections
      4. Preflight reports
      5. Viewing preflight results, objects, and resources
      6. Output intents in PDFs
      7. Correcting problem areas with the Preflight tool
      8. Automating document analysis with droplets or preflight actions
      9. Analyzing documents with the Preflight tool
      10. Additional checks in the Preflight tool
      11. Preflight libraries
      12. Preflight variables
      1. Keeping colors consistent
      2. Color settings
      3. Color-managing documents
      4. Working with color profiles
      5. Understanding color management
    20. Troubleshoot
      1. Troubleshoot PDF printing in Acrobat and Acrobat Reader
      2. Adobe Acrobat license has either expired or not been activated
      3. Edit PDF forms created in LiveCycle Designer
      4. Insufficient data for an image error on Adobe Acrobat
      5. Resolve errors related to the AcroCEF/RdrCEF processes of Acrobat or Acrobat Reader

    When you open a PDF file in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader, the following error message is displayed: “Insufficient data for an image.” The PDF opens, but the contents are either blurred or missing.

    Error: Insufficient data for an image

    Solution

    Do one of the following in Acrobat or Acrobat Reader:

    • Change the zoom settings so you can see the contents of the document. Try reducing the Zoom factor, or click Fit One Full Page. (You can make this setting persistent to avoid changing it for every document:
      Go to Edit > Preferences > Page Display, and then choose Fit Page in the Zoom drop-down list at the top.)
    • Resave the PDF in Acrobat as an Optimized PDF. Choose File > Reduce File Size or Compress PDF. Choose the location to save the file and click Save.

    Alternate solution

    The corruption of the PDF structure or improper tags, images, metadata might also cause the error. Follow the steps to sanitize the PDF:

    1. In Acrobat, go to Tools > Redact.

    2. In the Redact toolbar, click Sanitize Document.

      Sanitize Document

    3. In the Sanitize Document dialog box, do one of the following:

      • To permanently remove items such as metadata, comments, and file attachments, click OK.
      • To selectively remove hidden information and have more control over what is removed, click the link Click Here.
      Selective document sanitization

      Select or deselect what information you want to remove from your PDF, click Remove, and then click OK.

      Choose what hidden information you want to remove

    4. Type a name for your file, choose location, and click Save.

    Note:

    The selected content is permanently removed when you sanitize PDF and save the file.

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