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On 27/04/2007, at 1:03 AM, Pat Barber wrote:
I have been trying out this method for shipping reports.
I know almost nothing about PDF files, but can somebody
explain to me why a single printed page can end up being
fairly large ?
A single page comes out to "about" 82kb.
Is that "normal" ??
A 132*60 page report would require approximately 8K to represent in
plain text.
Whether 82KB is excessive depends on how the PDF was generated. Is this
a "text" PDF or an "image" PDF? By that I mean does the body of the PDF
contain a single image of the spooled file or has it been built with
proper text lines? Image PDFs are always considerably larger than the
text equivalent.
Also, a PDF document contains additional information about fonts,
producer, XREF table, etc. Normally this information doesn't add
significantly to the size of a page but for a single-page document
COULD make it much larger than expected.
Finally, PDF documents support compression. If this is not being used
then the PDF can be larger than you might expect--especially when
compared to similar documents that are compressed.
You could save the PDF as a text file (just rename it) and attach it to
your append so we can see how it was built. That may shed some light on
why it is the size it is.
Regards,
Simon Coulter.
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