TOO MANY ARGUMENTS error

[NewbieCarol]

I am not a programmer but have been assigned to the task to help troubleshoot the following problem.

We are generating a PDF file using J2EE 1.2 running on WebSphere Application Server 4.0. When our employees internally view the PDF, they have no problem. But when someone outside of our network attempts to view the same PDF's, they get a "there are too many arguments" error. If they click ok, it opens the document just fine.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[edwardtx]

I'm running into the same situation where I would create a PDF file using .NET and get the same error when trying to open the file. I am not sure if you found any solution yet, but I don't think this is a network problem.

Edward

 

[johnpharris]

I'm having exactly the same problem but it seems to occur when moving from Acrobat Reader 6 to version 7. Has anybody yet found an answer to this issue - I've searched the Adobe forums to no avail. Thanks

 

[NewbieCarol]

John,
It definitely makes a difference in the version of Acrobat Reader is being used. I have since found out that internally we were using version 7 which does not work. I loaded version 6 and it worked fine. Unloaded 6 and put 7 back on....didn't work. The results were very consistent but I am unable to find a solution on Adobe's website.

 

[johnpharris]

Hi, thanks for the reply. I have since resolved the issue (sort of). The breakthrough came when I noticed that on one of my PDF documents, the error only appeared once scrolling down to a particular page. By a process of elimination, I narrowed the problem down to a shaded cell on a table. Removing this shading allowed me to open the document in version 7 with no errors. As to the root cause of the problem - I'm none the wiser??

 

[NewbieCarol]

Thanks John. It sounds like perhaps there may be a problem with our document and version 6 just "overlooked" it and version 7 is more strict.

Thanks again for your feedback.

Carol