Is there a PDF size limit?

Is there a recommended maximum size (in pages or MB) for a single PDF file?
We have very large (10,000+) page PDFs that are being created, and we keep running into problems with file corruption. I'm not sure its related to the size of the PDF, the fact that it is created using various other scanned docs, or because the original was in Acrobat 8 and we're now adding to it using Acrobat X.
Any suggestions?
thanks

There's no explicit page number limit but there is a limit on indirect objects of 8,388,607 in a 32-bit PDF rendering application - Acrobat and Adobe Reader are both 32-bit code - and because each page consumes at least one indirect object, every PDF file created by or opened by Acrobat must have less pages than that. If you were to create a native x64 PDF application you could add more pages, but the resulting files wouldn't open at all in 32-bit apps.
Architecturally there is only one limit in the PDF standard: the overall file size must be below ~10GB as the cross-reference tables which define the PDF structure use 10 bits.

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Chris Cox wrote:
Where did you get the idea that we weren't doing something about it?
that's what I gathered from "JPEG cannot [...] in Photoshop (code difficult to replace)".
But if you say this is in the works right now, that's good news indeed.
Chris Cox wrote:
And where did you get the idea that posts get deleted? (other than SPAM)
Are you sure you're reading the same forum as the rest of us?
That's what happened:
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Anyway, you gave an honest answer on this technical issue, Chris, and that's what counts.

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