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Thread ID: 112698 2010-09-18 11:49:00 Is it me or is the PDF file truly corrupted? Renmoo (66) PC World Chat
Post ID Timestamp Content User
1138149 2010-09-20 05:20:00 I'm siding with george12 on this one, since my issues with the same file were intermittent across browsers and it's a relatively large file... johcar (6283)
1138150 2010-09-20 05:28:00 1.2Mb is large? ubergeek85 (131)
1138151 2010-09-20 06:14:00 Could be - if your internet connection is dodgy at the time. By the time the browser realizes it's a PDF and funds the appropriate EXE or plugin to use...

:pf1mobmini:
johcar (6283)
1138152 2010-09-20 10:22:00 1.2Mb is large?

I don't think it's REALLY 1.2MB.

It's a 224 page document apparently. It's going to be larger than 1.2MB I suspect. The small size may be another symptom of an incomplete download.
george12 (7)
1138153 2010-09-20 12:08:00 Interesting, I encounter the exactly same symptoms again when I tried to load the PDF file on my ASUS netbook. Same error message popped up when I tried to open the file after having downloaded it

(Firefox, Foxit PDF Reader / Adobe PDF Reader)

There's definitely something unusual about this PDF file.
Renmoo (66)
1138154 2010-09-20 12:17:00 Might as well jump on the bandwagon...

FF here and could not open it, says it's damaged.
--Wolf-- (128)
1138155 2010-09-20 16:43:00 I don't think it's REALLY 1.2MB.

It's a 224 page document apparently. It's going to be larger than 1.2MB I suspect. The small size may be another symptom of an incomplete download.

Sorry, but I think you're misunderstanding how much size text takes up (even in PDF form).

For example, I can go and download the whole text of wikipedia, compressed using BZ2 and in an XML container, and it weighs in at 6.1Gb. (here ('download.wikimedia.org) if you're interested, it's 'enwiki-latest-pages-articles.xml.bz2' that I'm refering to). That's 3.4 million articles.

My point? You can fit a hell of a lot of text into small PDF's. I've seen 500+ pages at 15Mb, with images too.

Edit; just downloaded it again, came in at 1.2Mb again.
ubergeek85 (131)
1138156 2010-09-20 20:29:00 Hmmm, tried it again with my laptop this time - same config as my desktop FF and Foxit. It was fine on my desktop but on the lappie it got the message "Not a pdf or the file is corrupted". John H (8)
1138157 2010-09-20 23:56:00 Maybe it's the server corrupting the data sometimes. Agent_24 (57)
1138158 2010-09-21 07:46:00 The PDF file is definitely corrupted or not very well formatted on the server, it's just that different PDF readers (and even different versions) are and are not able to render it. As I said earlier, Sumatra PDF 1.0 couldn't render it, however Sumatra PDF 1.1 could, same file and everything. sal (67)
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