Hang when opening PDF

I have a PDF authored in Pages and "printed" to disk that is file shared to my iPad2 via iTunes.
When I open it in iOS, Reader hangs: sometimes displaying a blank page, but other times it omits elements of the document, sometimes displaying a blank second page.
When this happens, tap to reveal the index does not function and closing/re-opening the Reader comes right back to the hang state.
After several minutes the PDF will finally display and the app resumes normal function.
I have resynced and renamed the PDF but have not figured out what is causing the hang on opening.
Anyone recognize this bug?

Is it possible to share the file? This sort of issue is usually file specific and we can often fix the problem if we have the file.

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