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Annotations are stored in an array at the page level.  Arrays may only have
8191 entries.

This can also implact form fields, but there's a workaround.  The fields
array only contains parent fields, 'a', not 'a.b'.  A suffienctly deep
hierarchy lets you have an unlimited number of fields.  

But you can only have 8388607 objects in a pdf.  Each annotation is at least
one object, fonts, pages, colors, images... lots of things are made up of
one or more seperate objects at the file level.

So there are limits on what can be done, but those limits are set well
passed the 640k mark.

Additionally, these limits tend to increase from one version to the next.

*all these numbers are taken from appendix C of the PDF specification*

You're likely to run out of HD or RAM long before you run into most of these
limits.

--Mark Storer
  Software Engineer
  Cardiff Software
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typdef std::disclaimer<Cardiff> Discard;


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