FM12: PDF file size exploding

[Lin Sims]

After a bit of testing, the increase seems to be linked to 3 files that
were created using DITAFMx from a batch of xml files that were generated by
script from an Excel workbook. Interestingly, these files have always been
part of the document (and inserted in the same way), so I'm not sure why
there's a sudden file size increase.

I'll be regenerating these files again soon, so I'll see if the increase
continues. It's still odd.

On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:39 PM, David Spreadbury <dspreadb at yahoo.com>
wrote:

> Lin,
> I just tested your issue opening a 12 page text only structured FM7.2 file
> and saving it as FM12.
> Did nothing more than open the FM7.2 in FM12 and then save it as a FM12
> document.
> Printed FM12 version using Acro XI Adobe PDF driver.
> Distilled postscript to PDF.
> FM7.2 file size=358KB Acro 8 PDF=207KB
> FM12 file size=8630KB Acro XI PDF=278KB
> This was one chapter of a 30+ chapter book.
> The Acro8 PDF of the book is 3025KB.
> I can open and update all the chapters, but with only 70KB increase in one
> chapter, I would expect a slight increase in the book, but nothing like you
> are experiencing.
>
> Dave
>
>
>  On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:18 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
> The PDF has to be posted as a shared review on a cloud web storage site.
> There's a size limit to what you can upload. My company is using corporate
> GMAIL and I have a 30Gb limit on storage, and for now I have to attach a
> shared review enabled PDF to an email to allow reviewers to join the
> review*. Admittedly, this one file isn't going to break either of those
> limits, but it's not something I can keep doing for a long period of time.
> Plus the sudden increase in size worries me. If there's a problem with the
> files, I need to find it before things get hosed (and yes, I did run all
> the files through a MIF wash).
>
> *I will be testing setting up a shared review by storing the shared review
> PDF on the cloud drive and sending a link instead, but until I do, I know
> this works.
>
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Fred Ridder <docudoc at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> Not to minimize your question, but...
>
> With the cost of computer storage running about $0.10 per gigabyte for
> hard disk or $0.50 per gigabyte for SSD, I'm not sure it's worthwhile
> worrying about 10 MB more or less. That's less than 1/2 cent's worth of
> storage space. Unless you know your documents are going to be posted on a
> website where a significant number of users do not have anything resembling
> broadband access, spending more than a few seconds worrying about 10 MB in
> file size does not yield a good return on investment.
>
> -Fred Ridder
>
> ------------------------------
> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:26:35 -0500
> Subject: FM12: PDF file size exploding
> From: ljsims.ml at gmail.com
> To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
>
>
> Has anyone had an issue with the size of a generated PDF increasing
> dramatically after moving a book from FM10 to FM12 (or any earlier version
> of FM to FM12)?
>
> I've got a book that's gone from under 3M to over 12M, and that's AFTER
> running the Save as Reduced Size.
>
> Is this a bug, have I not set something up in either FM12 or Acrobat 10
> correctly, or is there a solution?
>
> Thanks,
>
> --
> Lin Sims
>
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>
>
>
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> Lin Sims
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Lin Sims
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