An image is only embedded once in PDF if you always refer to it by the same URI, no matter how many times you refer to it. So I don't think that is the issue.
Can you send an simple example of a PDF with just an image generated by Framemaker and by FOP so that we can investigate the difference. On 5/30/13, chandone <echan...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I use Java, XSL-FO and FOP to generate PDFs that consist in one or more > pages of data and images, each page having a header and a footer containing > images themselves. These header and footer are repeated on each and every > page of the PDF documents. The images are responsible for a large part of > the size of the resulting PDF (about 50 %). I noticed that, by converting > them from JPEG to TIFF, and by reducing their resolution, I was able to > reduce considerably the size of the PDF as well. But I now have the feeling > that I have reached a dead-end as far as images as concerned. > > The PDFs are still very huge, compared to those that used to be generated > with FrameMaker, the Adobe PDF generation system that we're willing to get > rid of. And I'm sorry to say that I can't think of another way to reduce > the > PDFs' size, as the Web mainly talks about pre-processing images in order to > make PDFs smaller. I was wondering whether, maybe, it would be possible in > a > way or another to tell FOP to repeat the images in all headers and footers > in some kind of way so that the images would be embedded only once in the > document and just "mirrored" on the other pages. Plus, there ought to be > other ways to reduce the PDF size, apart from images, don't you think? > > I would highly appreciate any advice on this topic. Thanks a lot in advance > for your time and help. > > Erwann > > > > -- > View this message in context: > http://apache-fop.1065347.n5.nabble.com/reduce-size-of-PDF-generated-with-FOP-tp38619.html > Sent from the FOP - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: fop-users-unsubscr...@xmlgraphics.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: fop-users-h...@xmlgraphics.apache.org
