Preview hangs while viewing PDF (44MByte)

I have a pdf file that always hangs in preview.
Preview often freezes while viewing this pdf file. You can see the spinning rainbow wheel for a good 10 seconds before it resumes working again.
After page 130 or 140 it is really bad. Scrolling not possible.
Link:
http://assets.denoneu.com/DocumentMaster/DE/AVR-4520E2_DEU_CD-ROM_v00.pdf
iMac, quad core i5, 2,7Ghz, 4GB RAM. OS X 10.8.5

I get the same result as you in Preview and in Adobe Reader, I also tried the file in NitroPDF on a Windows machine with the same result.
From these results I suspect a bad file.

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Identifier:      com.apple.Preview
Version:         765 (6.0)
Build Info:      15-Preview~765000000000000
Code Type:       x86_64 (Native)
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Date/Time:       2012-09-11 19:50:01.769 -0430
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0   libsystem_kernel.dylib                  0x00007fff8a67f356 socket + 10
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