How to minimise the file size for Turnitin submissions?

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The maximum file size for submission to Turnitin is approximately 20MB, though staff may  choose to reduce this for an individual assignment.

Students can compress a document so it is small enough to be uploaded to Turnitin. This may be necessary for long documents (such as dissertations) and documents that contain many images. To compress a file:

  • Save Word documents to PDF format – this may compress the document to a small size,

If the file is still above the maximum upload limit you can follow these instructions to compress the PDF further.

  • To compress or minimise the file size of large PDF documents:
ON A PC: ON A MAC:
Use software to compress PDF documents. (download and
install this free software: PDFCreator from:
http://download.pdfforge.org/download/pdfcreator/PDFCreat
or-stable)

  • Launch the PDFCreator.
  • Drag your document on to the PDFCreator window OR click Document > Add and locate and open the file (change “postScript files (.ps)* to All files (.) in the bottom, right to see your documents).
  • Click OK when the message appears saying: “It is necessary to temporarily set PDFCreator as default printer”.
  • Click save.
  • Change the filename if you want to retain the original uncompressed version.
  • Once the file has finished compressing the default printer will be changed back and the compressed PDF file will open.

Or use http://compress.smallpdf.com/ to compress your PDF online for free
  •  Open the PDF in the *Preview *application.
  • File > Save As…
  • In the Quartz filter dropdown menu choose ‘Reduce File Size’.
  • If you want to keep the original uncompressed version, change the file name.

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