Re: Spool to PDF file sizes -- MIDRANGE-L

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My example was a single page with text. It was scanned to
a PDF using a Lexmark scanner. This may have a great deal
tp do with how big these things turn out.

I assume the program the scanner uses has a great deal
to do with document size ?

I appreciate the comments.

Simon Coulter wrote:

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.

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