E-mail programs tend to do nothing special with attachments, just attach them unchanged. It might have been a one time incident.
- Is it reproducible with the same pdf? You can open it before sending, then send it to yourself and you can't open it from the inbox or after saving it from the inbox to another location on the hard disk. Any difference show up (file size)?
- Is it reproducible with other pdf-files also, or just this one pdf-file.
Tell the results of your research.
Kees
E-mailing a PDF file appears to corrupt it. I have tried the same file using Yahoo and it works fine.
I am using Outlook 2003 (11.5608.5606).
Has anyone come across this problem?

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