{"version":"2.1.290","anchor":"large-pdfs-can-be-replaced-by-a-size-text-when-the-server-se","canonical_anchor":"large-pdfs-can-be-replaced-by-a-size-text-when-the-server-se","heading":"Very large PDFs can be replaced by a note of their size","tier":"notice","area":"File Attachments","scope":"individual","heads_up":false,"url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290\/e\/large-pdfs-can-be-replaced-by-a-size-text-when-the-server-se","release_url":"https:\/\/changelogs.core-directive.com\/v\/2.1.290","markdown":"### Very large PDFs can be replaced by a note of their size\n\nIn some setups, a PDF too large to include directly is now replaced by a text note giving its size instead of being dropped\n\n**Unclear.** Which environments count as the server supplying the model's files is not known.\n\n**What**\n\nWhen a PDF is larger than the size Claude Code can include directly, it is now replaced by a short text note giving its size, in setups where the server supplies the model's files. Elsewhere, an oversized PDF is still left out, as before.\n\n**Why**\n\nIn those setups the model is told that a large PDF exists and how big it is, rather than getting nothing.\n\n- Area: File Attachments\n- Tier: You'll notice\n- Useful: 2\/5\n- Signal: 2\/5\n- Scope: individual\n- Heads-up: no"}