

Having pushed the PDF size up to 1.3Mb and finding the site continues to fail on upload.

I believe the memory issue is actually a red herring. Check file and try again."īy "choke" I mean the file fails to upload, the error message is provided, but the browser can also crash at this point in the process. Once acquired, choosing the "Upload" option takes some time for a responseĮrror Message: "Cannot process your resume - it may be too small.Choosing the upload option take the user to new page with a browse/upload feature.In the application process, users are presented with an option to upload a resume.In my most recent experience, the site appears to be using the TalemetryApply system. Give us a bit more information about “chokes” and the “warnings” and for that matter, perhaps identify the websites themselves so that we can give you (and perhaps those who run such websites if in fact they really are rejecting compact PDF files) some meaningful recommendations. Garbage text might simply disqualify such résumés and thus, be very counterproductive. But many if not most websites to which you submit résumés tend to scan the text within the PDF file, regardless of its display size and color. Conceivably, you could add a paragraph of 2pt white text in Times New Roman accessing hundreds of characters defined in that font yielding an added burden of up to half a megabyte. But Acrobat's font embedding typically only embeds the glyphs actually used in the document. For example, we assume that you are creating a PDF file with fonts embedded. It is not a particularly good idea to attempt to artificially inflate the size of a PDF file since there may be side affects. Warnings ensue.”Įxactly what do you mean by “chokes?” Does the browser freeze and stop responding? Webpage HTML errors?Īnd exactly what type of “warnings” are issued? Warnings imply that there is something you might want to check, not that there is necessarily an error.

You say that “the issue occurs when uploading chokes on a PDF because it is too small. In our previous experience, we've never encountered a website or any service that complained about an uploaded PDF file strictly on be basis of the file being too small in size (in terms of bytes, I assume). Quite frankly, this question probably wins the all time award for the Acrobat forums in terms of the weirdest request!
