At work and trying to work with a 43,000 page document

To anyone else out there who is having a similar issue and researching what to doin a similar situation here is a discription of what I am doing and the things I tried and the only work around that I felt was time effecient for my situation:

We have tax forms that need to be sent to each of our companies shareholders.   This year there were 960 documents approximately 45pages each.  We recieve a file from our accountanting firm with individual files for each shareholder and 1 large file with all the documents merged into one file.  This year is the largest file we've ever recieved, typically its a total of  13,000-18,000.  

1. Printing as a normally do which is a range of 1000-5000 pages at a time.  That worked for a short period of time and then my computer started freezing up adobe and other functions.  I did get 6900 pages printed in 2 batches sent to the printer.

2nd I tried printing smaller batches max of 1000 pages - which wouldn't have been time efficent but I was just trying to see what would work.  Once the large document started glitching out nothing seemed to help with working with the large file.

3. Restarted (obvious possible solution) - large file still keep causing issues

4. Breaking large file into smaller 5000-10000 page files.  When I tried it would break them down into that size.  I did dign up for the Adobe Pro in order to do this.

5. Combining individual files into larger files, but not as large.  I tried combining into 10 seperate files.  When I tried to do this it told me I could only combine a maximum of 1500 pages.  Again, I didn't feel this would be real time efficent for me.

6. I concieded that I was going to have to print the individual files.  I was able to highlight up to 15 files at a time, right click and print.  If you've made it this far in my situation you obviously are as frustrated as I was trying to come up with a solution so if you are at this point and you need to do this, keep in mind that it did not give me an option to change my printer or printer settings when I printed this way.  So make you have your default printer set to the printer you want to use and also your default settings are set to what you want them to be.  After I did those 2 things I also restarted my computer and printed just a few to be sure they were printing in the format I wanted them to.

I do hope this explaination of the situation for me can help someone out there avoid the frustration I've dealt with in trying to figure out how to handle this extremely large document!!  Happy printing people 🙂 

This seems excessive, yes. I'm not surprised the application is having issues with it.

There are all kinds of tools that can be used to split such a file, but I think you need to look for a command-line based one, as opening it would probably cause any application to stall or crash.

I've developed similar such tools for my clients in the past, so if you're interested in purchasing a tool to split this file for you (based on number of pages, for example), feel free to contact me privately to discuss it further.

is this an acrobat pro question?