Currently running the March 2018 version of PBI Desktop. If that is the case you would need to export the working. I know that I have had some serious issues very much like what you are explaining because I was using 1. To repair PDF file online, you can try 'Sejda,' a free online tool used to repair damaged PDF. Then I create exe of this jar file using lanch4j.
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