pdf merging results blank pages #377

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1. karanbhatti369

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   bugSomething isn't workingSomething isn't working

   on Oct 21, 2026
2. KnifeLemon

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4. KnifeLemon commented on Oct 22, 2026

   

   KnifeLemon

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   Thanks for the report!

   Could you help us reproduce it?

   1. Your Filee version (Settings → About).
   2. Two or three of the PDFs that give blank pages (copies without personal information are fine), or where they come from (a scanner, a website, Word…).
   3. Which viewer shows the blank pages, and whether another PDF viewer shows them blank too.
   4. The last lines of today's log in %APPDATA%\Filee\logs\ right after a merge.
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7. jojofox0815 commented on Oct 25, 2026

   

   jojofox0815

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   I've proposed a safeguard in #583. After merging, Filee draws every page of the result small (about 18 dpi, a few milliseconds per page). If a page is blank in the result but not in its source, the merge is done again with PdfPig. If that fails too, PDFsharp's result is kept.

   I couldn't reproduce the blank pages without your files. Could you attach two PDFs where it happens, or tell us:

   • which program made them,
   • whether they are encrypted or have form fields?

   Then I can check that the safeguard catches your case and turn it into a test.