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Adobe Reader flashes a “Rebuilding” message when I load the PDF. Whats up with that?

April 26, 2017Adobe Flashes load message PDF reader rebuilding

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Adobe Reader flashes a “Rebuilding” message when I load the PDF. Whats up with that?

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ASCII PDFs are fragile things. If the data is hand-edited, or saved in such a way that the line-breaks are converted between simple carriage returns to line feeds and carriage returns, the PDF can get messed up. However, Reader is smart enough to “rebuild” the necessary information it needs to correctly display the PDF. Care should be taken when saving the PDFs to make sure no extra processing of the ASCII data takes place.