RE: [xep-support] PDFs are large

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@renderx.com
[mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com] On Behalf Of Chris Ridd
Sent: Saturday, September 24, 2005 1:26 PM
To: xep-support@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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