One of the best finds during my exhausting efforts to produce and submit a paginated Digital Court Bundle, ordered by the Family Court, for my Final Hearing in 2023, was the website www.ilovepdf.com
Every .pdf tool you will ever need. Edit, convert, merge, split, compress and watermark. 100% free. Saving paying for anything by Adobe!
So I created all of my documents in Word (except the existing .pdf's of court forms) and when I was happy with the content, converted to .pdf.
A good tip is to make sure you create a seperate folder for all of the individual Word and converted .pdf documents. So if something goes horribly wrong, they're there to help you start again.
One of the potential obstacles to emailing what for me ended up being a total of 61 individual .pdf documents to my Family Court, is the email attachment size limit.
Keep in mind that email attachments are generally MIME encoded, which increases their size by about 33%. So, 10MB of files on your devices disk will become about 13MB when attached to an email.
Merging those 61 individual .pdf's into a single .pdf file reduces the overall file size. Compressing a .pdf into a zip file reduces file size even further.
Merged, my 61 individual .pdf's is on my desktop PC at 3,010KB.
Of course, you can pay for larger email capacity if you choose. You can also upload the file to a cloud storage service first, then forward a link to that file via your email instead of attaching the file directly (I would check with your local Family Court to ask if they were happy with this first).
Any other issues, tips or workarounds, comment below.
Every .pdf tool you will ever need. Edit, convert, merge, split, compress and watermark. 100% free. Saving paying for anything by Adobe!
So I created all of my documents in Word (except the existing .pdf's of court forms) and when I was happy with the content, converted to .pdf.
A good tip is to make sure you create a seperate folder for all of the individual Word and converted .pdf documents. So if something goes horribly wrong, they're there to help you start again.
One of the potential obstacles to emailing what for me ended up being a total of 61 individual .pdf documents to my Family Court, is the email attachment size limit.
Keep in mind that email attachments are generally MIME encoded, which increases their size by about 33%. So, 10MB of files on your devices disk will become about 13MB when attached to an email.
- The maximum attachment size limit for Proton Mail is 25MB.
- The maximum attachment size limit for AoL Mail is 25MB.
- The maximum attachment size limit for Yahoo Mail is 25MB.
- The maximum attachment size for Gmail is 25MB.
- The maximum attachment size for Outlook is 20MB.
- The maximum attachment size for iCloud is 20MB.
- The maximum attachment size for Zoho Mail is 20MB.
Merging those 61 individual .pdf's into a single .pdf file reduces the overall file size. Compressing a .pdf into a zip file reduces file size even further.
Merged, my 61 individual .pdf's is on my desktop PC at 3,010KB.
Of course, you can pay for larger email capacity if you choose. You can also upload the file to a cloud storage service first, then forward a link to that file via your email instead of attaching the file directly (I would check with your local Family Court to ask if they were happy with this first).
Any other issues, tips or workarounds, comment below.
