Unacceptable PDF file size

dawa · Post by **dawa** » Wed Sep 07 2005

I've got a PDF Converter Version 2.05 Professional.

I printing a report from Visual Foxpro 9.0 to using the printer. It prints but the resulting PDF is more 33M. It have about 46 pages, among them 44 are TIFs and 2 of them are JPGs.
I've tried many settings.
Below is the latest code that I am testing with:

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#define FileNameOption_NoPrompte  0x00000001                     && do not prompt for file name
#define FileNameOption_UseFileName  0x00000002                   && use file name set by SetDefaultFileName else use document name
#define FileNameOption_JPegLevelLow  0x00020000                  && Low JPeg compression

m.loPdf = CREATEOBJECT("cdintf.cdintf")
m.loPdf.DriverInit("KELLY-WESTON: IC IMAGE PDF")
m.loPdf.FileNameOptionsEx = FileNameOption_NoPrompte ;
						+ FileNameOption_UseFileName ;
						+ FileNameOption_JPegLevelLow
SET PRINTER TO NAME ("PDF Converter")
REPORT FORM rptimagereport.frx NOEJECT NOCONSOLE TO PRINTER
m.loPDF.DriverEnd()

What is going on?

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Thu Sep 08 2005

Hello,

You are using in your code Jpeg compression, this compression algorithm is good for Jpeg images (you have 2 of them in your document) but it will not compress the tiff images you have.

If you Tiff images are black and white I suggest that you try CCITT fax Compression algorithm, if they are colored I suggest that you try Automatic Compression algorithm.

Hope this helps.

dawa · Post by **dawa** » Thu Sep 08 2005

Joan,

Thanks for the reply!

Well, I've tried to use Automatic Compression but I get the following error on this block of code:

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m.loPdf.FileNameOptionsEx = FileNameOption_NoPrompte ;
                  + FileNameOption_UseFileName ;
                  + FileNameOption_AutoCompression

[error]
8002000a: Out of present range.
[/error]

When I have mixed image types such as TIFF and JPEG, what is best compression to use? Will Automatic Compression compress both of the types?

Please advise!

dawa · Post by **dawa** » Thu Sep 08 2005

Joan,

Could you please take a look at the previous message?

I also converted all the TIFF images to JPEG format then used JPEGLow compression the size got reduced only by 1M from it's original 33M.

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m.loPdf.FileNameOptionsEx = FileNameOption_NoPrompte ;
                  + FileNameOption_UseFileName ;
                  + FileNameOption_JPegLevelLow

Why is this happening?

Joan · Post by **Joan** » Mon Sep 12 2005

Hello,

FileNameOptionsEx is not supposed to generate an out of range message.

For the size of the output, please send us the original file you are trying to convert to PDF to support@amyuni.com we will check it and see what are the best options to use during conversion and will let you know.

To reduce the size of a file containing images you may need to use 'Remove duplicate images' by example.

Thanks.