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art1511
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June 23, 2025
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after combining pdfs, bad Xref entries reported

  • June 23, 2025
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Hi all,

I combined two pdf documents and it all went well.

Afterwards I realised that the two documents were different sizes (actual page sizes). Found a tutorial online showing how to overcome this. So far so good.

I have opened the "new"  file on 2 different machines using adobe and no problem, but on a 3d machine I receive the error message that the file has "bad Xref type entires", which I've read up on but don't pretend to understand. It isn't a major issue, but I'm concerned other users of this file (it is to be made available to many) might experience issues opening the file. How do I fix this? I have saved under a new name, as some suggested, but nothing has changed.

Thanks in advance. 

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Meenakshi_Negi
Meenakshi_Negi
Legend
June 23, 2025

Hi art1511,

 

Thank you for reaching out.

 

Please let us know if you are opening the PDF using the same application on a third machine. If yes, please share a screenshot of the error message and the PDF version saved on that machine so we can check.

Did you make any changes to the PDF on the third machine or before opening the PDF on the third machine?

 

Thanks,

Meenakshi

 

 

 

 

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art1511Author
Participant
June 23, 2025

Hi Meenakshi,

Thanks for the quick response. I failed to mention on the third machine I am attempting to open the file on Adobe Photoshop 6.0.  When I try to open the file I get 

and if I try to import the pdf I get 

Thanks again.

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