Re: Spool to PDF file sizes

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.