I am trying to import a PDF file. It is Kevin Murphy’s Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics which can be downloaded from the author’s Github page [link to PDF]. The file is clearly a PDF, opens in a PDF reader like Adobe Acrobat, and has a .pdf extension. But when I attempt to import I get the error: “probml_2.pdf not supported and will be skipped”. See image below.
Thank you for sharing the link to the PDF, @snamjoshi. Unfortunately, the PDF is over 100 MB, which is why you can’t upload it to Paperpile. Handling large files has been a known source of issue for us in the past, so the current upload limit is set at 100 MB. The workaround would be to use third-party software to compress or split the files into smaller parts.
I see, that makes sense thank you. As a user, it would be a helpful to have this information appear in the dialogue box explaining that it is due to size limit. As written it is confusing to see that the PDF is not supported only to see .PDF listed in the supported types dropdown. I spent a while trying to figure out if the PDF was corrupted in some way and a small explanation about file size would have been more specific. Thanks!