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Posted to fop-dev@xmlgraphics.apache.org by "Bolle, Jan-Philipp" <Ja...@softwareag.com> on 2001/11/20 10:34:03 UTC
PDF size
Hi,
I need to get small PDF documents with pictures.
Therefore I try to understand the way how FOP uses pictures, and what
determines the resulting size of the PDF document..
As an example, I generated a PDF document with FOP. It contains 20 pictures
and a few lines of text.
The sum of the sizes of the jpeg source pictures amounts to 1,54 MB. The
generated PDF file size is 4,6 MB.
In the case of gif the sum of the sizes of the gif source pictures is 2,22
MB. The generated PDF file size is 3,67 MB.
What kind of format is FOP using internal?
What is the best way to achieve smaller documents with the same content?
What makes the PDF so much bigger than the sum of the sizes of raw text and
pictures?
cu philipp
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Re: PDF size
Posted by Jeremias Maerki <je...@outline.ch>.
You're probably working with an older version of FOP. Recent versions
include direct support for embedding JPEG which results in smaller PDF
files.
The files are bigger in your case because the JPEG gets decoded and
compressed pixel by pixel using the Flate algorithm.
On Tue, 20 Nov 2001 10:34:03 +0100 Bolle, Jan-Philipp wrote:
> Hi,
> I need to get small PDF documents with pictures.
> Therefore I try to understand the way how FOP uses pictures, and what
> determines the resulting size of the PDF document..
> As an example, I generated a PDF document with FOP. It contains 20 pictures
> and a few lines of text.
> The sum of the sizes of the jpeg source pictures amounts to 1,54 MB. The
> generated PDF file size is 4,6 MB.
> In the case of gif the sum of the sizes of the gif source pictures is 2,22
> MB. The generated PDF file size is 3,67 MB.
>
> What kind of format is FOP using internal?
> What is the best way to achieve smaller documents with the same content?
> What makes the PDF so much bigger than the sum of the sizes of raw text and
> pictures?
>
> cu philipp
>
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