Maximum file size or maximum amount of .pdfs in app?

Dear all,
We are creating an app in which tehre is a large number of references created by using an advanced overlay as described in the 'Linking to PDF files' section in the DPS tips app.
Does anyone know whether there is a largest amount of .pdf used in this method a if there is any maximum size of the combined pdfs possible?
We have run into some problems where the overlays load with errors and we can not make sense of it.
Any experiences on this?
Thank you very much,
Best,
Kim

David_MB wrote:
Am I getting close to some sort of size/complexity limit for the iWeb program?
David ~ Probably. iWeb simply wasn't designed to do what you're doing with it. Although iWeb may not have a numerical limit on size or links, bear in mind that it was designed for small personal sites.
One thing you could do to reduce the size is post some of your data on an external site such as Posterous and hyperlink to it. Posterous will automatically place PDFs in a convenient viewer, e.g.
http://dont-panic.posterous.com
By the way, the PDF there was converted from Posterous' web page via this:
_Free online URL to PDF Converter_
And Weebly allows sub-pages (and sub-sub-pages) accessible via drop-down menu. This might allow you to organize your data in a more structured way than iWeb allows:
_Weebly Support Center: Sub-Pages_

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