PDF management - How to split a PDF file for submission to the eFiling website using Adobe Acrobat Pro

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Purpose: If your PDF exceeds the maximum size limit of 10 MB, it can be split into several smaller files with Acrobat Pro for submission to the eFiling website.

Applicable Users: eFile users with large PDFs

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1. Open the PDF with Adobe Acrobat Pro. 
2. Select Organize pages.
   
3. Select Split.
   
4. The Split by window displays. Select File Size. Enter 10 in the Max Mb field.
   
5. Select Output options.
   
   (Note: If you wish to split more than one PDF at a time, select “Split multiple files”. You will have an opportunity to select all of the documents you wish to split and then will be prompted to proceed through the following steps.)
6. Under Target Folder, choose where to save the newly divided documents on your computer.
   
   • By choosing The Same Folder Selected at Start, the files will save to the same location in which the original document exists.
   • By choosing A Folder on My Computer, you can indicate a different location to save the new files.
7. Under File Labeling, you can choose how to name the newly divided files.
   
   • Select Add label and number before original name to add a prefix before the original file name.
   • Select Add label and number after original name to add a suffix after the original file name.
     (Note: By selecting “Use bookmark names for files names” the new PDFs will automatically be titled according to bookmark titles in the original document. This works well if you chose to split the document by “Top-level bookmarks” in the previous window.)
8. Select the Use label check box and enter the label you wish to add as a prefix or suffix to the new file names.
   
9. Select the Use separator between original name and label checkbox to choose how you’d like to combine the label and original file name (e.g., hyphen, dash, underscore). For the example in this guide, the file names would be “Summons and Complaint_Part 1.pdf”, “Summons and Complaint_Part 2.pdf”, and so on.
   
10. Select the Do not overwrite existing files check box to maintain a copy of the original. Select [OK].
    
    Acrobat will display a message indicating that the document has been successfully split. 

Note: Adobe has a document on splitting PDFs How to split a PDF file.