Fylane Fix
File too large? Wrong format? Fixed.
Drop in the file the website just refused. Tell us what it wants. Fylane converts, compresses and prepares it — privately on this device whenever possible.
No file handy?
The same website, with and without Fylane
Northgate Careers
Senior Product Designer
Form holds: no file
Without Fylane
Northgate Careers
Senior Product Designer
Form holds: no file
With Fylane SmartInput
Put this directly in your website
<FylaneInput
accept={["jpg", "png"]}
maxSize="1MB"
autoFix
/>And this is that exact component, live
When an upload will not go
What do I do when a file is too large to upload?
Make it smaller before the form sees it, rather than hunting for a form that will take it. A photograph shrinks by lowering its quality a little, which is invisible at the sizes forms want; a PDF shrinks first by being rewritten losslessly, and only then by re-encoding the images inside it. Drop the file above and it is done here, on your device where it can be. If you already know the limit, Compress PDF to 1 MB and Compress JPEG to 100 KB are the two most forms ask for.
How do I upload a file that is too big?
You cannot make a form accept more than it allows, so the file has to come down to it. Compressing is the first move and usually the only one needed. If it is a long PDF and the form only wants a few pages, splitting it is better than crushing it — the pages you send stay sharp. If it is a video, no amount of compression will get a phone recording under a 5 MB limit; upload it somewhere and send the link instead.
Why is my file not uploading?
Almost always one of four things. It is bigger than the form allows, and the form usually says so somewhere near the field. It is a format the form does not take — HEIC from an iPhone is the most common, because it looks like a photo everywhere except in an upload field. It is the wrong shape or resolution for a photo the form is strict about. Or it is open in another program and locked. Fylane reads the form’s own rules and tells you which one you have hit.
How do I fix “file format not supported”?
Convert it to a format the form does take. The message almost never says which formats those are, but the form itself does: the file picker greys out everything it will not accept, so the extensions it leaves selectable are the answer. For photos it is nearly always JPG or PNG; for documents, PDF.
My PDF is too big to upload. What can I do?
If the PDF is text — a contract, a résumé, a report — it usually reaches 1 MB with a lossless pass alone, and nothing on the page changes in any way you can see. If it is a scan, the photographs inside it have to give something up, and how much depends on how many pages there are. Try 1 MB first; if the pages come back unreadable, ask for 2 MB, and if the form will not allow it, send fewer pages.
Why can’t I upload my résumé?
The usual reason is the format: a .pages file from a Mac, or a Google Doc link rather than a file. Export to PDF and it will go. The next most common is the file name — some systems reject spaces and punctuation, so alex-morgan-resume.pdf is safer than "Alex Morgan CV (final)(2).pdf". After that, size: keep it under a megabyte, which a text résumé always can be.