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Thomas Sörensen edited comment on PDFBOX-1618 at 1/10/14 12:50 PM: ------------------------------------------------------------------- Hi So I noticed that each splitted pdf page that was large contained a link to another page. So i tried removing all annotations from each page. PDPage.setAnnotations(emptyList). The total size went down from over 100Mb to 17Mb. The original file is 3MB. If I then try merge the pages again none of the links work anymore of course. Can someone give an explanation for this? EDIT: I added compression filter to each page stream that decreased the totalsize of the splited files from 17MB to 9MB. page.getContents().addCompression() was (Author: thomassorensen): Hi So I noticed that each splitted pdf page that was large contained a link to another page. So i tried removing all annotations from each page. PDPage.setAnnotations(emptyList). The total size went down from over 100Mb to 17Mb. The original file is 3MB. If I then try merge the pages again none of the links work anymore of course. Can someone give an explanation for this? > Split PDF file to single page files, some files are inflated in size > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Key: PDFBOX-1618 > URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/PDFBOX-1618 > Project: PDFBox > Issue Type: Bug > Components: PDModel > Affects Versions: 1.8.1 > Environment: Windows 7, JVM 1.6.0_29 > Reporter: Tom Taylor > Attachments: 112080-TECHNICAL MANUAL FOR GENERATOR NIR 7194 A-10LW OF > 4038 KVA.pdf, Test_PDFs.zip, internalstructure.png > > > A PDF file is split into single pages for inclusion within another document > (pdfbox.utils.Splitter within our code but same phenomenon observed when > splitting using command line PDFSplit tool). Som of the pages are almost as > large as the original file which causes performance problems for our > customers. > Again, I have a sample pdf to attach. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v6.1.5#6160)