Error: Adobe Reader could not open pdf because it is not a supported file type or has been damaged

I have copied over the "first five lines of rubbish" , a suggestion of another contributor.
Here they are:
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If you can read this ... go for it. For info, we have an app that gets county data, makes a PDF and allows a user to open or save it. Out of the 12 districts and 88 counties we have, some districts and their counties work fine. 2 in District 5, 3 in District 4, these all produce this error.
A "Cause" given at this link: http://kb.calyxsupport.com/kb/article.php?id=769 is that a corrupting character exists in the file path and/or the filepath is too long. On this line of thought, it is being looked into if these 5 instances are somehow corrupting the file path when it is being concatenated in the app or, in the case of these 5 instances we know of, is the concatenated file path too long?
Well, in case the rubbish leads to an answer, there you have it!
Thanks!

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