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Waste of money, don't buy this | Adobe Express Translate limitation

Forum|Forum|11 months ago
July 27, 2025
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This is ridiculous. I paid for the full version to be able to have translations. The translations simply don't work; say "sorry, all good things have a limit, you can only translate 99 pages." I'm translating 40 pages! Also, these are history textbooks so it just won't translate things that it says are inappropriate content, but, of course, won't tell me what the inappropriate content is!! Waste of money. I want my money back. Don't buy this crap.

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Correct answer Amitej S

Hi @smart_Jubilee8859, Welcome to our Adobe Express community!

We're sorry to hear about your experience. As of now, Adobe Express currently has a limit of 99 pages per file, so if you're trying to translate multiple languages within the same file, it may hit that cap even if your content is under 40 pages.

A possible workaround is to duplicate the file and translate each version separately into one language; this keeps it within the page limit.

While it is not ideal, we're working to improve it. In the meantime, we recommend upvoting this feature request on UserVoice here: https://adobe.ly/4obIHLB. This helps our product team prioritize improvements like this.

Thanks for your patience, and we're here if you need further help!

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Bill21868607sgp6

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Still Have not fixed it and have next to no support. Using your product or trying to get support is maddening! “Yes, your sorry to hear about my experience.” FU!

timothyc70672061

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I have a PhD thesis to read. Split it up into four files of less than 100 page.
First one is 88 pages. It doesn’t even start to translace. It doesn’t even give me the error page.
Working to improve it is NOT helpful, being clear about what ‘might work’ would be.

So. a Spanish PHD. How many pages will it handle. ?

Rose DV

Community Manager

Hi @timothyc70672061!

That's a fair and specific question, and I want to give you a clear answer.

The 99-page limit applies to the total output, not just your source pages. Because the translation tool keeps the original pages and adds the translated pages at the end, your document effectively doubles in length. So an 88-page file would result in roughly 170+ pages of output - well over the limit, which is likely why it doesn't even start.

To stay under the cap with a Spanish-to-English translation, you'd want to keep your source files to around 45-48 pages or fewer to ensure the combined output stays under 99 pages.

So for your PhD thesis, splitting into four files of ~45 pages each rather than ~88 pages should work better.

We know this is a significant limitation for academic and research use cases, and I'm sorry the current experience isn't meeting your needs. Your feedback is noted.

Rose

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mesha7

Participant

I have the same issue. I have an 85 page file to translate and it says the limit is 99 pages which, of course, is more than my file. I'm on a free 7-day trial which expires in 3 days. Needless to say, if it isn't going to translate my 85 page file, I'm glad I didn't pay for it. And, additionally, I need other languages, which aren't offered, and larger files translated, so this apparently won't work for me. I am thankful I came across this post to realize the limitations before purchasing.

Amitej S

Community Manager

Hi @mesha7, thanks for posting here. Could you please confirm whether you're translating 85 pages in one language or multiple languages?

The 99-page limit would include pages if other languages are also selected for translation.

You can try one language translation at a time if you need multiple languages translated pages.

Let us know if this helps!

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mesha7

Participant

I read your reply to @smart_Jubilee8859 . Unfortunately, the app didn't get "improved" before I tried it. I started out with 6 languages to translate. When that didn't work, I kept reducing the number of languages until I was at 1 language, which still didn't want to translate my 85 page pdf. I realized the issue after reading @Timur Born's comment about how it counts translation pages AND source pages to total 99 pages. It was even more alarming to read that it deletes content.

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Timur Born

Known Participant

Hello. The reason seems to be that the translation tool *adds* the translated pages to the original pages, so the document doubles in page number. This still doesn't fully explain why your 40 pages don't stay below the 99 limit, so you might have to try to split them up further.

I just tried 45 pages and ended up with 84 translated pages, 45 original and 39 translated ones. Still quite buggy it seems.

David__B

Legend

Hi @smart_Jubilee8859

Sorry to hear about your frustration with the product. If you would be willing to share your project with me privately? I can try recreating the issue and possibly offer recommendations and pass feedback on to our developers.

Thanks,
Dave

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Timur Born

Known Participant

1. For reproducing how the Translation function doubles page numbers by keeping the original and adding the translation at the end: use any document.

You can also use this one: https://helpx.adobe.com/pdf/aem-forms/6-2/designer-samples.pdf

Incidentally this one also features an unspecified error on page 24 (20 by content numbering).

2. The reason why my documents end up translating a few dozen pages less than the original: Adobe not only decides which word we are allowed to read, but it also fails to point to the "offensive" words in question. We are left to guess.

We even only get a single message for one missing page out of multiple. Last but not least the whole page isn't translated then instead of just leaving out the supposedly offensive words. Meanwhile DeepL just translates everything, as expected.

Amitej S

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Community Manager

Hi @smart_Jubilee8859, Welcome to our Adobe Express community!

We're sorry to hear about your experience. As of now, Adobe Express currently has a limit of 99 pages per file, so if you're trying to translate multiple languages within the same file, it may hit that cap even if your content is under 40 pages.

A possible workaround is to duplicate the file and translate each version separately into one language; this keeps it within the page limit.

While it is not ideal, we're working to improve it. In the meantime, we recommend upvoting this feature request on UserVoice here: https://adobe.ly/4obIHLB. This helps our product team prioritize improvements like this.

Thanks for your patience, and we're here if you need further help!

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