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  3. April 2007

Re: Spool to PDF file sizes

This is good information.

I had no idea there were so many ways to actually
create a PDF.

beppecosta@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:

A one page only-text scs spooled file can become a 3-4K pdf if compressed with standard FlateEncode (that is the standard compressing for text streams) and without embedding fonts. Each font included takes 30K.

If rasterized it grows up to 50-80K if compressed with G4 (as the IBM api trasformer does). This can be further compressed with jbig2 and the resulting Pdf can be 75-80% less than rasterized G4 thus becoming 15-20K.

Infoprint creates pdf with embedded fonts as default; that's why a single page is so big, but pdf with a great number of pages grows just a little.

Different sizes for afp, but this depends on many other factors.

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