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If I have a large document, such as a book, with chapters that build on and reference each other, do I lose their interrelationships by breaking up the document? I am working in the Lite version and am curious as to whether to break up a large pdf into smaller doc or pdf files or to keep it intact. The limitation on the number of characters (50,000) may drive me to another plan.

Adam Aycock
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  • What kind of doc is it ? Word doc ? If yes, you could use the Word master/slave mechanism to break your large document into smaller parts, while keeping their interrelationships. – Romain Bernard Aug 12 '18 at 05:44
  • Thanks, Romain. Some docs are Word - I will look into the master/slave mechanism. Some are Adobe or html. I assume, from your response, that without something like a master/slave mechanism that the interrelationships are lost. Is that correct? – Adam Aycock Aug 13 '18 at 12:39
  • I don't know how to split an existing pdf document and update all links to take the new documents organization into account. Parsing/modifying pdf files are not easy tasks. Many information are lost in the pdf, since PDF content is all about graphic stuff. It is hard to detect a heading, to extract the text in the right order, and so on...Usually, pdf documents are generated by a tool. Could they be generated directly with the right file organization instead of splitting a huge pdf into smaller ones in a second time? – Romain Bernard Aug 14 '18 at 13:24
  • Thanks, again, Romain. I think the right answer is to convert a pdf to a doc and us the Word master/slave mechanism. – Adam Aycock Aug 15 '18 at 14:37

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