<div dir="ltr"><div>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.<br><br></div>I'll be regenerating these files again soon, so I'll see if the increase continues. It's still odd.<br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:39 PM, David Spreadbury <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dspreadb@yahoo.com" target="_blank">dspreadb@yahoo.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="color:#000;background-color:#fff;font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div dir="ltr"><span>Lin,</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>I just tested your issue opening a 12 page text only structured FM7.2 file and saving it as FM12.</span></div><div dir="ltr"><span>Did nothing more than open the FM7.2 in FM12</span> and then save it as a FM12 document.</div><div dir="ltr">Printed FM12 version using Acro XI Adobe PDF driver.</div><div dir="ltr">Distilled postscript to PDF.</div><div dir="ltr">FM7.2 file size=358KB Acro 8 PDF=207KB</div><div dir="ltr">FM12 file size=8630KB Acro XI PDF=278KB</div><div dir="ltr">This was one chapter of a 30+ chapter book.</div><div dir="ltr">The Acro8 PDF of the book is 3025KB.</div><div dir="ltr">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.</div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr">Dave</div><div><br><br></div><div style="display:block"><div><div class="h5"><div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial"> On Tuesday, February 17, 2015 11:18 AM, Lin Sims <<a href="mailto:ljsims.ml@gmail.com" target="_blank">ljsims.ml@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br> </font></div></div></div><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div style="font-family:HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif;font-size:16px"> <br><br> <div><div><div class="h5"><div><div><div dir="ltr"><div>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).<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>*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.<br clear="none"></div><div><br clear="none"><div><div>On Tue, Feb 17, 2015 at 12:04 PM, Fred Ridder <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:docudoc@hotmail.com" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">docudoc@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br clear="none"><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-width:1px;border-left-style:solid">
<div><div dir="ltr">Not to minimize your question, but...<br clear="none"><br clear="none">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.<br clear="none"><br clear="none">-Fred Ridder<br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div><hr>Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2015 11:26:35 -0500<br clear="none">Subject: FM12: PDF file size exploding<br clear="none">From: <a href="mailto:ljsims.ml@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">ljsims.ml@gmail.com</a><br clear="none">To: <a href="mailto:framers@lists.frameusers.com" rel="nofollow" shape="rect" target="_blank">framers@lists.frameusers.com</a><div><div><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><div dir="ltr"><div><div>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)?<br clear="none"><br clear="none">I've got a book that's gone from under 3M to over 12M, and that's AFTER running the Save as Reduced Size.<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>Is this a bug, have I not set something up in either FM12 or Acrobat 10 correctly, or is there a solution?<br clear="none"><br clear="none"></div>Thanks,<br clear="all"><div><div><div><br clear="none">-- <br clear="none"><div>Lin Sims</div>
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