Mike,

The PDF isn't growing, the total document size is increasing because it is generating TIFF pages; you haven't removed the PDF (electronic file) so you're still seeing that icon, but the size is from the pages.

If you right click and look at the properties, you'll see that the PDF is still the same (electronic file size) but the total size of the Laserfiche document is higher because of the pages.

By default, TIFF pages use LZW lossless compression, and a separate image is generated for each page of the document; the resulting files will be inherently larger than the source PDF because they're flattened image data.

Laserfiche cannot add pages to a PDF document, so the only way to do that is to convert to TIFF pages and then make the modifications. As a result, you'll also need to make sure you remove that original electronic file (PDF) as it will no longer match once you add pages to the LF document.

That makes sense.  Is there a WF activity to remove the electronic document from the new document that was created with the Move Pages activity? It doesn't seem like there should be an electronic document within the new LF document, but if there is, I would want to remove it using a WF activity if it's possible to do that.

Hi Mike,

The electronic document is not related to the Move Pages activity and move pages cannot create a new document; it can only modify existing documents.

It sounds like the account used to save documents in Forms is configured to generate pages automatically for PDF uploads.

As a result, the pages are being generated which allows you to Move Pages, however, Forms profiles cannot be configured to discard the electronic file.

There's no out-of-the-box workflow activity to remove an electronic file, however, you have two options:

1. Move the pages from the "source" document into another document so you can just delete the copy with the PDF
2. Use a workflow script to remove the electronic file

Since you're already moving pages from the saved form anyway, I think the first option would be the easiest; just reverse your approach.

Instead of moving the form pages to the uploaded document, you can move the pages of your uploaded document to the beginning of the form document.

That way you can just discard the entry with the electronic file.

What I'm doing is saving the form pages as a TIFF file in one folder and the uploaded PDF in a separate folder.  When the Forms TIFF is saved it triggers the WF where I grab the submission ID which is stored in the starting entry's fields, then I use that to search the attachments folder for the uploaded PDFs that have a matching submission ID.  Then I use Move Pages to move the PDF into the TIFF file and then I delete the PDF.  The end result is a TIFF file that is much larger than the original PDF, so I guess we just chalk that up to the TIFF format.

Workflow does not generate image pages out of PDFs. You'll want to look at the PDF page generation settings for the user specified in the Save to Repository task in Forms since that's where the page generation happens.

As for deleting the original file's e-doc, is there a point in doing that rather than deleting the whole document? Once you moved its image page, if you delete the e-doc component too, you'll have an empty doc (with metadata). Does that serve a purpose at point or can you just delete the whole document?