Re: PDF Limitations?

[Mike Wills <koldark@xxxxxxxxx>]

The resulting file of a 3000 or so page PDF comes out to be about 5-10MB 
range I believe.

On 4/15/05, James Rich <james@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 14 Apr 2005, Brad Stone wrote:
> 
> > Is the PDF you're looking at compressed? SPLTOOL uses no
> > compression.
> 
> No, the pdf is not compressed. It is all just plain ASCII text. If the
> data weren't sensitive I would paste an example.
> 
> > I've run tests before and around there it seems to fill up.
> > It's not just the data, it's all the PDF data as well. So
> > for each page you can add more.
> 
> Right, the XREF contains an entry for every object in the PDF. Is a 3,000
> page pdf really around 10GB in size? I'm talking about a print file that
> was originally an SCS file. What's taking up all the space?
> 
> James Rich
> 
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