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Edge pdf text addition = massive file size increase
As of today, when I add just a small amount of text (20-30 characters) to a pdf and save, the file size increases from 66KB to 55,000KB ... never happened before. I've reported to Microsoft but they have no solutions. Any ideas to get around? Saving as a separate file has same result. Thanks
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Got this same issue today, it broke my entire workflow, a 60KB document turned into a 800MB document. What the HECK is going on? COMON!
This is so freaking stupid, this broke my entire workflow now and I need to download a new app to fill out PDF's. My documents turned from being 80KB to 900MB. What the HECK IS GOING ON??
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Possibly the edge experimental version, try searching "edge://flags" in the URL of edge >> Search "PDF" >> Disable "New PDF Viewer". See if that works
Not truly a “fix”. I mean, it works, but the old editor has worse issues, among which:
- if you don’t put new lines manually in comments, text boxes stretch to full-page-width every time you save and re-open a pdf
- similar to the above, sometimes the highlighter decides to become full-page-width as well, and that’s not great for two-column documents
- the view lags when you scroll “slightly” fast
So, be wary. But it’s not like we have a better option…
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Same issue! 👀
Same here…I believe it’s the latest update that brought this issue
Go to edge://flags and disable the New PDF Viewer. This solved the problem for me. It is still annoying because you need to add space so words do not disappear.
Yes! What is that??? Soooo annoying!
Hi I am having the same issue in Microsoft Edge, the PDF file after completing with text is increased in size massively from 286 KB to 268134 KB. How do I resolve it?
Following this thread & bumping as I have encountered the same issue and want to see Microsoft acknowledge it, some further information that might help.
- Added drawn elements do not increase the file-size exponentially.
- Text elements cause the increase, with the addition of a single text element ballooning the size from a couple hundred KB to tens of thousands of KB.
- Saving the file as a new file following any edits makes no difference.
- Printing the PDF file (Using Microsoft print to PDF) takes significant time for the preview to render & appear but once printed the file-size is not as massive, though still larger than what would it would typically be from minor text edits (a few thousand KB instead of several tens of thousands).
- Editing the document within Chrome browser & Acrobat reader did not produce the same results, works fine outside of Edge.
For comparison, I made the exact same edits within Acrobat as with Edge, original File-Size of 600KB. Edge saved to a size of 55,640KB. Print to PDF (via Edge edits) saved to file-size of 2,600KB. Acrobat saved to a size of 680KB.
Stop vibe-coding updates, Microsoft.
Thanks JoeTML - really good info. I hadn't tried Print to PDF but I've installed Acrobat (Reader only for free) which has so far allowed me to make minor edits which is all I need at the moment. Btw I had a long telephone chat with Microsoft rep, but she couldn't help at all
Having the same issue starting today.
I'm having the same issue only as of today. I added around 20 lines of text to my pdf document using the edge built-in pdf editor, and it made my PDF file size increase from 45KB to 0.6 GB
