Re: Smaller PDF, shrinking away largeness

[Mats Bengtsson]

It would be interesting if you could investigate what has been "removed".
Do the new files still contain the same fonts? Are they embedded the same
way?

I really hope you turned off point-and-click in LilyPond, otherwise the
comparison is completely uninteresting.

  /Mats

daf wrote:
> In the interim, PDFCreator is a free win utility and does a great job of
> stripping the extra bytes away: simply install, select PDFCreator as your
> printer and print.  The resulting output can be 80% smaller, or more.
>
> http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfcreator/
>
> By way of example, I downloaded the mutopiaproject.org version of BWV853b,
> bumped up the global font size to 16, and expanded it to 5 pages.  The
> LP-generated PDF was 528K.  The PDFCreator version was 90K.  I did not
> notice any degradation in print quality, but I tend not to notice stuff like
> that anyhow.  And YMMV.  But in the interim, the time it takes to do the
> extra print step should pay off handsomely for your dialup email recipients.
>
> Best,
>
> Jay
>
>
>   
> > > > > PDF files seem larger than [they used to be],
> > > > > is there something I can do to shrink them?
> > > > >           
>
> Laura Conrad added:
>   
> > > My users complain about this too.  
> > >       
>
>   
> > For me, the bottleneck is email transmission, where 130K vs 1300K is
> > still significant (approximations for current project).
> >     
>
>   

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