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Getting a PDF under 10 MB
10 MB is the limit for many email systems, e-filing portals and grant or tender submissions. The files that need it are usually long scans, design portfolios or reports full of photos.
At this size most documents keep images at 200 to 300 dpi, which still prints well. Often the lossless pass alone gets there, since PDFs exported from design tools tend to carry duplicate fonts and uncompressed data.
Tips
- Uploads can be up to 50 MB. Split anything larger into parts first.
- Some mail servers count an attachment after encoding, which makes it about a third bigger. If a 10 MB mail limit rejects the file, try a 7 MB target.
- Large files take longer, since each setting is a full pass over the document. Leave the tab open until it finishes.
Questions
How much room does each page of a 100-page court filing get under 10 MB?
One hundred pages sharing 10,000,000 bytes get about 100,000 bytes each. For scanned exhibits that usually means a lower step than a short document needs. At the 200 dpi step an A4 page is about 1654 x 2339 pixels, which still prints legibly at full size.
Will my 10 MB PDF still be text-searchable after compressing?
Text that was searchable before stays searchable, because real text is kept as text. A scan with no text layer stays unsearchable, since the tool does not run text recognition. If an e-filing portal requires searchable text, run recognition on the scan before compressing it here.
Will my images be touched at all if the file is only a little over 10 MB?
Not if the lossless pass gets it under 10,000,000 bytes. If it does not, the first lossy step caps images at 300 dpi with JPEG quality 90, and only images stored above 300 dpi lose pixels.