[xep-support] PDFs are large

[Henning, Bill]

I've found that the by setting the KERN option to false in the xep.xml
file, you cut the PDF file size in half, which matches the older XEP 3.x
functionality.

Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-xep-support at renderx.com
[mailto:owner-xep-support at renderx.com] On Behalf Of Chris Ridd
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 1:26 PM
To: xep-support at renderx.com
Subject: [xep-support] PDFs are large

Hi,

I've been experimenting with xep (XEP 4.4 build 20050822), and am
wondering
if there's any way to decrease the size of the PDFs produced.

A quick test on a nine page doc full of Helvetica and Times text
produces a
55550 byte file, but if I make xep produce Postscript (which contains
pdfmarks) and then distill that using Distiller 5.something, the
resulting
file is 43309 bytes.

I tried changing xep-pdf-linearize from false (default) to true, but the
size just increased by 3 bytes :-( I couldn't see any other knobs that
looked worth tweaking.

Obviously 10K is not a particular problem, but I'm concerned about what
will
happen when we scale up to 600 page docs containing lots of bitmapped
graphics.

Cheers,

Chris


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