Reply To: My PDFs are corrupted

April 3, 2015 at 1:27 pm #74392

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Hi Chad,

When I have PDFs that are acting up, I often will open them in Preview, save, close, then reopen in Acrobat. This often (though not always) fixes the problem. I don’t why, but try that. https://documentgeek.blogspot.com/2011/03/using-preview-as-workaround-when.html

You may want to try exporting just single pages or page ranges to see if you can pinpoint the troublesome area. In the past, I’ve had weird issues when I had too much stacked transparency. Even today, I had a multipage PDF placed as a graphic, and one page was corrupted. So I fixed that one page and then InDesign was able to import the file just fine.

I’d also be happy to take a look at some of your PDFs and see if I can figure out the problem if you like.

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