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Send a large PDF without email.

Email caps attachments at around 25MB. A link has no such limit, and it's tidier anyway.

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Key points

  • Email rejects PDFs over roughly 25MB; hosting the file and sharing a link sidesteps the limit entirely.
  • Recipients open the PDF at full quality in their browser, with nothing to download.
  • Optional link expiry and password protection give you control after sending.
  • Free plan handles files up to 25MB per upload; larger files are on a paid plan.

Every email provider rejects attachments past roughly 25MB, and a detailed report, a scanned document, or a print-ready file blows past that easily. The usual workarounds, like compressing until the file looks bad or splitting it into parts, are worse than the problem. Sharing a link sidesteps the size limit entirely.

The fix is to put a PDF online and send the URL instead of the file. The recipient clicks and reads the document in their browser, at full quality, with nothing to download. If you genuinely need a smaller file as well, you can turn a PDF into images, but for most cases the link is all you need.

This works for any large file, not just PDFs. The same dashboard lets you put any file online, and a collection of files zips up so you can upload a ZIP as one link. If the document is sensitive, link expiry and password protection turn the share into something you control after sending, and the file is served through signed file URLs so the storage behind it stays private.

The free plan handles files up to 25MB. For larger files, the Pro plan raises the ceiling.

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