More info, While talking to a colleague we are going to run a test by removing all links. There are 17000+ links in the new workflow and around 500 in the old. We think this could be the issue and not an SVG thing.
Any thoughts or insight? Marijan (Mario) Madunic Publishing Specialist New Flyer Industries -----Original Message----- From: Mario Madunic [mailto:mario_madu...@newflyer.com] Sent: Wednesday, June 23, 2010 7:46 AM To: fop-users@xmlgraphics.apache.org Subject: Compression of output question Well first off, I do not know much if anything about PDF compression methods, techniques, or technologies. Using FOP 0.94, Windows XP SP3, 2Gigs ram My FOP config files compression is set to <value>flate</value> (At the moment sticking with 0.94 as I have some fix-ups to do with 0.95 and am unable to get a proper build of the trunk happening here at work) Here is the issue with PDF output file size. When the old workflow of creating our manuals (FM to PDF, images are all WMF) the PDF file is around 20megs. In the workflow under development it is DITA (DITA Open Toolkit not used, it is a custom transformation) to PDF using SVGs for images and BGs, the PDF is around 70megs. FYI there are 500+ full page images, some very simple like a shock absorber breakdown (around 20k) to some really complex breakdowns 900k to 4megs. So my question is what can be done to bring the file size down? Am I misunderstanding PDF compression and what is possible? Just so you know how I'm thinking of compression, when I'm working in Photoshop and exporting for the web and using the percentage slider to see the quality of pixilation I'm getting. Or is PDF compression more like Zipping a file? Any insight will be appreciated. Thanks Marijan (Mario) Madunic Publishing Specialist New Flyer Industries -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: This communication (and any and all information or material transmitted with this communication) is confidential, may be privileged and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, retransmission, circulation, distribution, reproduction, conversion to hard copy, copying or other use of this communication, information or material is strictly prohibited and may be illegal. If you received this communication in error or if it is forwarded to you without the express authorization of New Flyer, please notify us immediately by telephone or by return email and permanently delete the communication, information and material from any computer, disk drive, diskette or other storage device or media. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org -------------------------------------------------------------------- Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail. CONFIDENTIALITY STATEMENT: This communication (and any and all information or material transmitted with this communication) is confidential, may be privileged and is intended only for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient, any review, retransmission, circulation, distribution, reproduction, conversion to hard copy, copying or other use of this communication, information or material is strictly prohibited and may be illegal. If you received this communication in error or if it is forwarded to you without the express authorization of New Flyer, please notify us immediately by telephone or by return email and permanently delete the communication, information and material from any computer, disk drive, diskette or other storage device or media. Thank you. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
