Recipients of my PDF attachments of 2MB or more can't open them as being corrupt.

I'm using Microsoft Outlook. I have no problem opening the documents that I'm sending.

Attachments can easily get damaged during email transmission. It doesn't matter what email client you use; email is simply not a safe way to transmit electronic documents.
Far better is to upload a document to a server (SendNow, Dropbox, Google Docs, ...), then insert the link to the document into the email message.

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