How to "repair" a PDF that opens in Acrobat Reader but not Preview
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I have a PDF that won't open in Preview; it gives this error message:
However, it will open in Acrobat Reader, but cannot be resaved, or saved with a new file name from Reader:
As I can see all the pages (or most of them at least!) from this PDF, there must be some way to get them into a file that Preview can open. I can do this by copying pages from Reader one-at-a-time, but the PDF has 500 pages.
What is the easiest and cheapest way to export all these pages, and create a new PDF, from Acrobat Reader?
**EDIT:** I'd rather not have to sign up for online Adobe services...


Asked by Bob Broadley
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Nov 27, 2017, 08:02 AM
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