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A document marked available offline that opens as a damaged file usually means the badge was set when the download started, not when the bytes were checked. The same shortcut saves an error page as a PDF: a server can return HTML with status 200, and an app that only asks whether a file arrived will store it under the final name. Download into a temporary file next to the final one, compare the byte count and SHA-256 against what your catalog publishes for that document, check the PDF header and end marker, and only then rename the file and write the record. Keep the library in application support rather than a cache or temporary folder, since both can be cleared by the system. The ordering is what protects the user. If a check fails, the half-written file is deleted and the copy they already had still opens. https://www.duskolicanin.com/blog/flutter-offline-pdf-download-manager

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Build an Offline PDF Library in a Flutter App

Build a Flutter offline PDF library that survives cut-off downloads, full disks and new versions by verifying each file before it is marked available.

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