I've got a project I am working on that requires me to append a lot of printed files together. I have the act of putting the files together down programatically, but I am having some problems with the fonts. I am generating the files by printing reports within MS Access.
Specifically, when I append one file to another, it adds the fonts from the second file into the first, even though they are the same. I don't even have any need for the fonts, as they are fairly standard ones. The end result is that a document of ~960 pages, consisting primarily of text, ends up being 200MB in size. As well, when I load the file in Acrobat, it fusses about invalid font flags, presumably because there are thousands of fonts.
I thought this filesize was "normal" at first, until I went and printed one of the reports directly from Access. I printed out the report for all of the records, and it ended up being about 1000 pages, and the file size was, at most, 18MB.
I tried setting the font embedding to False via the FontEmbedding property, but the fonts still got embedded. I would appreciate any help that yall could provide.
In case it matters, I am using PDF Converter 2.10h. Thanks in advance
Appending files without embedding fonts
Please try version 3.01a or 251-d of the PDF Converter, these versions shouldn't add up the same font many times to the PDF file. This was an issue with old version of the Converter that was resolved sometime ago.
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aaronburro
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Thanks for the fast response.
OK, I will try one of those versions. Can I just use the dlls with my VB project, or will I need to actually install them? My company has a license for the creator, obviously, but I don't know what it is, and I probably can't install a newer version without the approval of several higher-ups.
This is a side-note, but I tried using the dlls for 2.5 with a VS2005 project, but it kept linking to the 2.10 dlls.
Edit:
I downloaded the 2.51 and 3.00 ZIPs, but they don't have the .dll files in them (they do have the .NET version)
OK, I will try one of those versions. Can I just use the dlls with my VB project, or will I need to actually install them? My company has a license for the creator, obviously, but I don't know what it is, and I probably can't install a newer version without the approval of several higher-ups.
This is a side-note, but I tried using the dlls for 2.5 with a VS2005 project, but it kept linking to the 2.10 dlls.
Edit:
I downloaded the 2.51 and 3.00 ZIPs, but they don't have the .dll files in them (they do have the .NET version)
Hello,
In your original post you mentioned that you are using the PDF Converter 2.10, so I suggested that you use the PDF Converter 2.51 or 3.01, If you download them you will get all the dlls in the exe file, you just need to double click on the exe to install the product and deploy the dlls to your system.
You can install the new version on a testing machine and try it if you want.
In your original post you mentioned that you are using the PDF Converter 2.10, so I suggested that you use the PDF Converter 2.51 or 3.01, If you download them you will get all the dlls in the exe file, you just need to double click on the exe to install the product and deploy the dlls to your system.
You can install the new version on a testing machine and try it if you want.