Increase PDF Size

I am having the same issue trying to upload JPEGS or PDF's. The site wont let me add a file less than 2mb. I printed the JPEGS to PDF and them combined them into one and it is still less than 2mb. I need to be able to increase the file size so I can submit the images. I have attached a snapshot of the message from the site.

Quite frankly, this question probably wins the all time award for the Acrobat forums in terms of the weirdest request! 

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).

You say that “the issue occurs when uploading chokes on a PDF because it is too small. Warnings ensue.”

Exactly what do you mean by “chokes?” Does the browser freeze and stop responding? Webpage HTML errors?

And 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.

It is not a particularly good idea to attempt to artificially inflate the size of a PDF file since there may be side affects. For example, we assume that you are creating a PDF file with fonts embedded. But Acrobat's font embedding typically only embeds the glyphs actually used in the document. 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 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. Garbage text might simply disqualify such résumés and thus, be very counterproductive.

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.

          - Dov