Splitting PDF by file size - files too small

Question

I have a 120 MB document where each page is ~3 KB. When I attempt to split the document into 20 MB documents, I should be getting 6 parts. Instead, Adobe is making 50+ parts with only 1 page of about 3 KB size. When I try to split by number of pages, each part is still 119 MB. There are no images, only text, and each page is consistently 3 KB. I was able to Save as reduced size PDF and then managed to split, but how can I split properly going forward?

try67 · Answer

You can't know in advance what's the size of each page. It's not * (1/), as there are often shared resources between the pages, such as image streams for fonts, which get duplicated when you split the pages. So if the original file contained a font that's 10MB, each one of the split pages will also need a copy of that 10MB font.

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