Would one, or some combination, of the pdf Adobe Acrobat The Document Could Not Be Printed supported by Inkscape at all (e.g. Choose File disable QuarkXpress OPI Xtension. So the problem seems to be in the pdfsam processing but other PDF tools seem to have no problem with the problematic file (ie Foxit reader, Chrome PDF Viewer plugin, PDF-Tools Repair and Extract). Are you using any Adobe Reader for the iPad app.
I have tried to split the same file with iText 5.4.2 Java library and the output is ok in Reader.
My workflow is simple, I take the original PDF file v1.4 (created from scanned images in Kofax Express) and split the file into (groups of) pages using software v2.2.2 (no compression, PDF v1.4, producer : iText 2.1.7) When opening the document in the latest version of Adobe Reader DC, Adobe Reader XI, Adobe Reader X, and Adobe Reader 9 we receive the following: 'Insufficient data for an image.' The document will still show in the reader if you scroll through it but print preview only shows a blank page. The menu path View > page navigation > Previous View does not work in. PDF’s containing JP2K images fail to render and throw Insufficient data for an image dialog. Acrobat/Reader 10.1.4 crashes with Adobe LiveCycle RightsManagement ES2 Extension for Microsoft Office. In the Redact toolbar, click Sanitize Document. Cannot save PDF opened in Reader 10.1.3 in Firefox from a long URL. Follow the steps to sanitize the PDF: In Acrobat, go to Tools > Redact. Alternate solution The corruption of the PDF structure or improper tags, images, metadata might also cause the error.
Choose the location to save the file and click Save. This particular issue has been fixed in the latest updates of Adobe Acrobat and Reader. The resulting probtest.pdf cannot load in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Choose File > Reduce File Size or Compress PDF. It shows the insufficient data for an image. I did not specifically process the image data. in Adobe Acrobat after I print a GUI to a PDF-file.