One user's created PDFs have started to crash/hang Preview and PDFPen

All the PDFs scanned in and sent to me by a particular user crash or hang Preview and PDFPen – but not Acrobat which opens them just fine. The odd thing is that this user's PDFs did not have such an effect on the apps until I did a Software Update (don't know what got updated but some Java libs were updated). The other odd thing is that no other PDFs except those scanned in by this one user, including those that used to open before, crash/hang the apps. And the third odd thing is that they crash/hang Preview and PDFPen but not Acrobat. (Do Preview and PDFPen share some common libs but not Acrobat?)
I would attach one such PDF for PDF techies to see what the problem may be but Apple Discussions doesn't allow file attachments as far as I can see. Therefore I've appended below the beginning of one such PDF file if it helps.
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@BDAqua, Thank you for checking and for your reply. I'm using Preview 3.0.9 (409) on 10.4.11. Did you cover that?
What do you mean by 'here'? I'm not a regular here (I mean the forum) so do you by any chance mean Infinite Loop? If so, maybe you could tell me what/which lib I can look at or into? Interesting to know that PDFPen indeed uses the system's PDF libs but Acrobat doesn't.
There's definitely something different about the referred-to PDF and all other PDFs created by this user (which are scanned in on some Xerox scanner) and I'd love to know what it is.
Thanks.

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