Richard Detwiler wrote: > Gavin Chester wrote: >> I have done a lot of googling, searched the OO.o archives and >> knowledge base, but I am not seeing any information exactly >> describing my problem - let alone a solution. So, if someone >> has a link to info please point me in the right direction ... >> >> Scenario: >> A document, containing ONLY text of around 20-50k typically >> blows out to 300-600k when exported as pdf in OO.o 2.0.4.17 >> OpenSuse version. How can I overcome this? >> >> My efforts do far: >> 1/ I can do the export manually and set the compression of >> images and so on, but these files have no images so that is >> not the issue. 2/ I can't see any option to embed (or not) >> fonts and I know this can make a big difference >> 3/ I can post-process the resulting pdf file using ghostscript >> and the file comes down to very close to the original OO.o >> file size - sometimes less depending on the document(s), but I >> don't want to have to do this two-step technique >> >> Any clues for the clueless. >> >> Gavin > > I have a different OS and a different OOo version than you do, > but FWIW, I don't see this behavior. > > I'm using Windows XP, with OOo 2.2. > > I first created an extremely simple text document (a single > word), saved it as an ODT file, then exported it as a pdf file. > The ODT file was 7 KB and the pdf was 17 KB. A bit larger than > the ODT, but nowhere near the 10X inflation that you report. > > Then I opened an existing text-only document that was 53 KB. I > exported it as a pdf, and the resulting pdf was only 55 KB, > virtually no inflation at all. > > I'm wondering if you can upgrade to OOo 2.2 to see if you see > any different performance.
I'm using suse 10 and openoffice 2.2. A one page file of 520 words saves as 6.8Kb as an odt file, and 11.3Kb exported as pdf, an increase, but not a huge one. Redirected through kprinter, though, it's only 1.5Kb, which is why I tend to use kprinter for large documents. -- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
