Several months ago I had questions about PDF sizes and have played with
them since. Is there some way to determine the 'cost' of using a
parameter?
For example, I have a 15 page report with lots of stretchable regions
and sub-reports. When it is printed, I keep a PDF copy on line for a
record (A major hat tip to Frank Taylor for the concept from his
conference presentation). I am trying to keep the PDF sizes as small as
possible because there will be 1,000s of these PDFs from all the other
reports we have.
I played around with the PDF example in HELP which just happens to use
40 parameters. With Compression Off, the PDF size of the 15 pager is
1,515KB. With Compression On and MaxCompression On, it drops to 799KB.
But when I turn Embed_Used_Fonts Off, that 799KB size dropped to 55KB,
which is as small as Acrobat could get it. Even with Compression set to
Off, Embed_Used_Fonts Off dropped the original 1,515 size to 189KB. It
seems Embed has a large 'cost' to its use. I can sure pack more 55KB
PDFs than 799KB PDFs on a hard drive.
The files without Embed work just fine with several viewers, so I simply
turn it Off even though I am not really clear on what Embedding does.
The report uses only one font with multiple sizes and bold.
Are there other parameters or combinations of parameter that come with a
size or speed cost? Using 5/15 V8.
Tom Frederick
Jacksonville, IL
