PDF merge limitations...

I have a question for the Acrobat gurus. I can merge multi pdfs up to 106 pages. My problem is that we deal with high page count media and I am having issues with merging anything over 106 PDFs into one at a time. When Acrobat is merging, it hits page 107 and closes itself out of the program. I have tried this with different PDFs thinking I could be running into a corrupt file, but I get the same result everytime. Any ideas?

Perhaps it is the difference between the iPad 1 & 2 and another original iPad user will be so kind as to test as you did? The PDFReader Pro documentation, in discussing problematic PDF formats, suggests opening the file with Preview on a Mac and doing a "Save As..." to convert to a more iPad friendly version of the file. I tried that but it didn't work. I also tried a complete reset of the iPad which similarly failed. I mis-stated my problem with the other attachment: it was not a 2 page outline as a Mail attachment, but rather a large single page poster of over 3 MB. The iPad 1 seems to be able to handle large multi-page PDF files as onely one page at a time needs to be rendered: It just seems to choke on large complex pages.
I actually moved-up from an Apple ][ to the 128K Mac in 1984. My current iMac appears to be the same vintage as yours. Curious as to the upcoming refresh of the MacBook Air with Lion as it might be a solution to the screen-size and other limitations of the iPad and probably will boot and run much faster than my "oldest iMac to support Lion" model.

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From f273bbd559b453e0af5a038b3bb8f3111272f9a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Phillip Smith <[email protected]>
Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 09:00:21 +1000
Subject: [PATCH] makepkg: add support for CARCH environment var
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