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Recently I have encountered problems using Preview with a few pdfs. Two different files from two different senders. (I was later able to open these email attachments on my powerbook without any problem.) When I open the files, Preview opens but the page is solid grey. I tried to open both files with Adobe, but got the following message: "There was an error opening this document. The file is damaged and could not be repaired." The strange thing is that some pdfs open just fine and the files that don't open, like I mentioned above, open fine on another machine.
I have already tried deleting the preview.plist and that didn't work. I am considering reinstalling preview (I saw that mentioned in a post), but would appreciate any suggestions before doing so. Thanks in advance.
jfg

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