FM12: PDF file size exploding

[Robert Lauriston]

Maybe there's a change in how FrameMaker 12 handles SVGs when
generating PDFs? Could the rasterization quality default have changed?

On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 12:34 PM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
> Nope. All the images are SVGs that are copied into the file (yes, I know,
> but we're kinda stuck with that as part of the process).
>
> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 2:24 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> Are of the image compression options different?
>>
>> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:57 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Nope. It's off by default. I had switched it on for one of the PDF
>> > generations, because I was hoping to use the import comments from PDF to
>> > Frame, but it turns out that really isn't as useful as I'd hoped, so the
>> > next time I created the PDF, I made sure it was off.
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> If that happened to me, I'd still want to know where the bloat was
>> >> coming from. PDFs larger than 10MB still present problems for me on
>> >> occasion, and files becoming 4X larger without any additional data
>> >> strongly suggests that a property setting was inappropriately changed
>> >> in the upgrade or some new property setting is at an inappropriate
>> >> default.
>> >>
>> >> The Generate Tagged PDF option didn't get switched on, did it?
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 10:18 AM, Lin Sims <ljsims.ml at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> > Well, on the minus side, regenerating those files and trying all the
>> >> > tips
>> >> > y'all have so kindly provided has not reduced the file size
>> >> > appreciably.
>> >> >
>> >> > On the plus side, I've discovered that it is, in fact, possible to
>> >> > put
>> >> > the
>> >> > shared-review-enabled PDF onto the cloud storage site, where we have
>> >> > unlimited storage. The reviewers still have to download it locally,
>> >> > but
>> >> > they
>> >> > always had to do that. I no longer need to send it as an attachment
>> >> > to
>> >> > an
>> >> > email, so the situation has become the one Fred thought it was to
>> >> > begin
>> >> > with. :-)
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > --
>> > Lin Sims
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> Lin Sims