Largest pdf document you've uploaded?

Largest pdf document you've uploaded?

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Largest pdf document you've uploaded?

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What's the largest pdf document you've uploaded to BIM360? Please share your experience managing that.
I'm testing an 1800 page QTO report in pdf format. In theory we can mark up and create issues on such documents as the whole project can be managed on BIM360.
I find myself with time on my hands while waiting for the report to open so I'm writing this post. I'll let you know how it goes.

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Ok. It uploaded successfully to the Project Files folder. Initially I thought the file was unviewable, but after leaving it over night I can now view all the pages. UX isn't great, I need to scroll & wait, then scroll and wait, to get to the page I want. Then when I click the thumbnail it takes 3-5 seconds for each page to load. 
I think we will be reviewing a downloaded copy & only browsing to the pages we want to raise an issue on.

I also uploaded the document to he plans folder with the following result.
Using PDF Xchange editor I automatically placed a "drawing number" in the header of each page. Then tried to upload the document. It failed repeatedly giving a timed out message during processing.
I used the PDF Xchange Split function to break the document into 200 page segments. I was able to upload those & extract the drawing number successfully. When attempting to view, I could see the thumbnail's but the pages did not generate, so I thought that failed too.
It's now 15 hours later & I can view roughly half the pages so I guess it's still processing. Again, a very slow page loading experience.



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