Re: Spool to PDF file sizes

[Pat Barber <mboceanside@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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.