Re: [xep-support] PDFs are large

You can also significantly compress PDFs using Acrobat after rendering
in XEP.
BJB

Henning, Bill wrote:

>When I set KERN to false, our 60 page books go from 250KB down to 166KB
>so that did the trick for us.
>
>Bill
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-xep-support@renderx.com
>[mailto:owner-xep-support@renderx.com] On Behalf Of Chris Ridd
>Sent: Monday, September 26, 2005 12:03 PM
>To: xep-support@renderx.com
>Subject: Re: [xep-support] PDFs are large
>
>On 26/9/05 4:22, Henning, Bill <Bill.Henning@AntaresSolutions.com>
>wrote:
>
>
>
>>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
>>
>>
>
>Interesting. I wouldn't have expected that to make so much of a
>difference!
>
>It also doesn't seem to make so much of a difference here:
>
> xep distiller
>kern.pdf 82335 44778
>nokern.pdf 77823 43700
>
>(NB I'm not sure why my xep PDFs have gone from ~50K to ~80K either.
>I've
>been messing with headers and footers, but they're all the same as each
>other so it doesn't make much sense.)
>
>Cheers,
>
>Chris
>
>
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