http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ Discussion forum for doPDF users. en Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:22:59 +0000 http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/huge-file-size-with-dopdf-version-72#post-4560 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:21:29 +0000 Softland 4560@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>Can you send us the file in question if possible to make some tests from here and find out the cause for the size?</p> <p>We have tried some printing with JPG files but the PDF resulted sizes are within normal parameters for a file that type.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/huge-file-size-with-dopdf-version-72#post-4557 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 08:24:37 +0000 bleaderII 4557@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hi there, </p> <p>I have created a OpenOffice Writer document containing up to 14 pages with JPEG files included and the file size is about 700 Kb.</p> <p>As soon as I start converting it with doPDF with the lowest resolution (72dpi) I get back a huge file size of more than 3 MB, I tried several tests with different files simply containg some pages but I am noticing that every time the converted PDF file is multiplied by 3 (minimum) rather amazing.</p> <p>If I use a free online PDF convertor from the Internet, it works fine given that the converted PDF file remains the same as my original file.</p> <p>Is anyone aware of this issue? I read on the forum that some other users had proposed to reinstall the version 5 to get rid off this "bug" but before rolling back, I would like to get your advice, thanks in advance.</p> <p>Yves </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/extended-characters-in-pagemaker#post-4016 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:22:59 +0000 Softland 4016@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>The most probable scenario is that you had some hanging print jobs started with the v6 and did not stop them at that time so when you uninstalled the version to replace it with the latest one, the icon remained because of the failed print. </p> <p>Thank you for the update. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/extended-characters-in-pagemaker#post-4015 Wed, 15 Dec 2010 10:04:24 +0000 foolonthehill 4015@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>In case it helps anyone else, I just went to Start/Printers and Faxes and rather than trying to delete the icon again, I clicked Cancel all print jobs, and the icon disappeared! It must have been hanging on an imagined print job still, maybe that's why it said Deleting under it. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/extended-characters-in-pagemaker#post-4012 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 09:01:52 +0000 Softland 4012@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>In this case maybe a PC file/registry cleaner will also help as some records may still be found either in the registry or the system.</p> <p>Unfortunately we cannot reproduce the behavior locally to help you more on this.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/extended-characters-in-pagemaker#post-4009 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 13:35:37 +0000 foolonthehill 4009@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>It is greyed out in the Printers window, and marked Deleting - Offline, it still won't delete [and I have rebooted already]. I am the only one who uses this computer and I have all admin etc. rights. No other software is open at present, so no conflicts or locking. I have reinstalled v7 and rebooted, but still unable to delete the v6 icon; it's not installed, but irritating seeing it there when it can't be used, a bit of detritus! </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/extended-characters-in-pagemaker#post-4008 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 12:43:00 +0000 Softland 4008@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>Not being able to remove the icon from the Printers area after performing all the other options is very unlikely unless you do not have administrator permission to do it or other 3rd party applications may be locking the printer in some way.</p> <p>We can remove the device from the Printers list even if doPDF is still installed on the PC so something must be wrong permissions wise on your computer.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/extended-characters-in-pagemaker#post-4006 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 08:08:31 +0000 Softland 4006@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hello,</p> <p>Please try to completely uninstall the previous version (v6) by using the tutorial on the following link:</p> <p><a href="http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/completely-uninstalling-dopdf" rel="nofollow">http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/completely-uninstalling-dopdf</a></p> <p>After this step we also suggest you reinstall the latest version to be sure none of the old files remain in the system.</p> <p>Thank you. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/extended-characters-in-pagemaker#post-4003 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 11:09:11 +0000 foolonthehill 4003@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>I found doPDF could print extended character sets perfectly, particularly accented Turkish characters, where all others I tried, including Acrobat Distiller, failed. </p> <p>Now it has failed to print a chapter that's heavy with Turkish characters, and also has lots of graphics. It goes through the motions, but doesn't load anything, creating a PDF of 0 bytes. I wondered if the file was too large or complex. Anyone have an idea what could be happening? </p> <p>I'll try printing out individual pages, and splicing them together afterwards, which might isolate any page causing problems or avoid a large file if that's the problem.</p> <p>Having read a few posts here, I found there can be problems with uninstalling and installing upgrades. I uninstalled v6 and then downloaded v7, and found v6 was still listed as a printer driver. v7 prints the problem file perfectly, so problem solved. But I can't delete the ghost icon for v6 from my Printers window, despite repeatedly deleting it. There's a stickiness here I don't appreciate!</p> <p>Post Follow-up:</p> <p>I did all that, deleted all v6 files I could find in all those directories, in safe mode, rebooted, and v6 is still displayed in my list of printers and won't delete, and can still be seen when choosing a printer driver. Software shouldn't leave files lying about like this, uninstall should mean just that. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/maximum-number-of-pages#post-3545 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 02:27:49 +0000 chucker54 3545@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Worked good with Picasa -- all 375. Thanks </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/maximum-number-of-pages#post-3544 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 07:34:07 +0000 Softland 3544@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Hi, no there's no limitation, just did a test in here with 512 images of 1mb and a pdf containing all of them was created in about 3 minutes. So there must be something happening on your side, can you try printing them to dopdf via a different image viewer (i.e. picasa, irfanview) just in case something went wrong with picture manager? </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/maximum-number-of-pages#post-3543 Tue, 27 Apr 2010 03:19:21 +0000 chucker54 3543@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Is there some limitation on the number of images that can be converted into one file by dopdf?<br /> I tried to print 375 pages and it went thru the process but only 240 pages were converted. 375 JPEG images of about 450kb each. Opened in Microsoft Picture Manager 2003, selected all, then Print to dopdf. It printed slowly until after 240 then speeded up, but went all the way to 375. When I open resultant document in PDF reader (adobe 9) there were only 240 images shown. Repeated with same result. I have dopdf V7 and Win XP. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/file-size-question-about-excel#post-767 Fri, 08 May 2009 06:36:02 +0000 edu519 767@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>I have an excel file that total is 92 sheets.</p> <p>I convert all sheets to PDF file which is only 2.1M byte.<br /> but when I convert sheet 1 which is 931K byte.</p> <p>How can I reduce the file size when I convert every sheets in individual file? </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/keeping-file-size-down#post-560 Mon, 02 Feb 2009 07:33:19 +0000 Softland 560@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p><strong>Update</strong>: Starting with doPDF version 7.2 it is possible to select with what compression engine you want to create the PDF, so either create a "Small file" or a PDF with "High quality images" (detailed on <a href="http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/major-update-dopdf-72353-released" rel="nofollow">http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/major-update-dopdf-72353-released</a>). So if you want to create small PDFs make sure you choose the "Small file" option and not the second one.</p> <p>The most common size problem with word documents that contain images is that when you insert an image into word if you resize it manually from word (or word does its automatic resize), the entire size of the image is still kept. So one solution to reduce the file size of a pdf printed from a word document with images is to force word into compressing and deleting the cropped areas of the images in the entire document. An example on how to do that (however please make a copy of the word document before doing this, so that you'll have the original copy with higher resolution and non-cropped images, and this second one with lower resolution and cropped images):</p> <ul> <li>Make a copy of the original word document, and open the copy. Right-click on one of the images, go to the <strong>Picture </strong>tab and click on <strong>Compress</strong>.</li> <li>A new window with compress options will open. Make sure that <strong>Apply to</strong> has <strong>All pictures in document</strong> selected. On the <strong>Change resolution</strong> section, check <strong>Web/Screen</strong>. Last, on the <strong>Options </strong>section make sure <strong>Compress pictures</strong> and <strong>Delete cropped areas of pictures</strong> are both selected.</li> <li>Now click on <strong>OK </strong>and you'll get a prompt that the quality of the pictures will reduce. Click <strong>Apply </strong>to accept that, save your word document and after that print to doPDF again. This should considerably reduce the size of the PDF.</li> </ul> <p>This is a screenshot of where to find that Compress window, it's for Office 2003 but I'm sure in Office 2007 there's a similar option:</p> <p><img src="http://www.dopdf.com/images/reduce-size.jpg" alt="Reducing PDF size" /> </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/keeping-file-size-down#post-553 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:12:36 +0000 PaintedParadise7 553@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>I need serious help. I need to keep my pdf documents under 2 MB. For instance, I created a word document that had pictures in it. When I was done, the document was .98 MB, I opened up the print option and chose doPDF v 6. It converted over to pdf, but shot the file size up to 2.15 MB. I compressed all of the pictures down before I even placed them in the document, so that isn't the problem. Help! </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/resolution-settings-dont-take-effect#post-410 Thu, 20 Nov 2008 06:48:37 +0000 Softland 410@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>if the doc contains only text it shouldn't be any difference as it affects images mainly. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/resolution-settings-dont-take-effect#post-409 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 13:15:22 +0000 mimmo 409@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>i don't see any difference, neither in resulution nor file size, converting the same doc file in 72 or 2400 dpi. can you help me? </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-do-i-keep-the-file-size-down#post-405 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:09:32 +0000 greyowl 405@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Another alternative would be to use PDF TK Builder to do the job of splitting off pages and merging pages into another pdf. It is freeware. Download at:</p> <p><a href="http://angusj.com/pdftkb/" rel="nofollow">http://angusj.com/pdftkb/</a> </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-do-i-keep-the-file-size-down#post-392 Mon, 17 Nov 2008 07:15:48 +0000 Softland 392@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Sorry, don't really have a solution for that. You could try however reducing the quality a bit of the original images, before creating the pdf again. This way the size of the pdf will be lower and you can keep the normal dpi for dopdf. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-do-i-keep-the-file-size-down#post-386 Thu, 13 Nov 2008 11:10:36 +0000 reddave33 386@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Thanks for the help we are getting somewhere now. We are managing to keep the file size down, however the picture quality is suffering. They become unclear and quite pixelated is there a way of avoiding this while still keeping the file size down?? </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-do-i-keep-the-file-size-down#post-378 Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:20:45 +0000 Softland 378@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>&gt;&gt;Or if you know of a way to export images from one pdf as a seperate images in quite small file sizes</p> <p>If you are using adobe reader to open the pdf, there's a tool called the snapshot tool. Basically you go in adobe reader's Tools menu, then to Select and Zoom and there you'll see the snapshot tool. This will let you select a page of your pdf and have a screenshot copied in your clipboard. After that you can open a graphics program and paste that screenshot there, from where you can play around with if it has some export options to reduce its size. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-do-i-keep-the-file-size-down#post-376 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:48:29 +0000 reddave33 376@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>Sorry i didnt really make myself clear enough! when i recieve the pdf i have to export the pages in the pdf as jpegs so i can use certain pages in my own different pdf which i am creating using the dopdf. So basically i was just wondering if there was a file that i could use instead of jpegs like: </p> <p>.PCT<br /> .PNG<br /> .RAW<br /> .TGA<br /> .TIFF</p> <p>To export as. Or if you know of a way to export images from one pdf as a seperate images in quite small file sizes.</p> <p>Thanks </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-do-i-keep-the-file-size-down#post-375 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 14:29:51 +0000 Softland 375@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>I'm afraid I don't really understand what you're doing. So you have a pdf document that has 60 pages. Then you take this pdf and print each page as a separate PDF using dopdf? You also mention "jpeg pages" but I don't know if you mean that each of the pages in the pdf contains an image too? </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/how-do-i-keep-the-file-size-down#post-374 Wed, 05 Nov 2008 13:06:08 +0000 reddave33 374@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>I have a 60 page pdf document which i get sent to me that is 1mb, when i export the pdf so that there are 60 jpeg pages the whole document becomes 20mb is there any way i can export the pages and keep the seperate file types down to a minimum?</p> <p>I then put some of the pages from this pdf into another pdf which needs to be kept down to 4mb (maximum) in order to be emailed on. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/file-size-difference-between-dopdf-and-adobe#post-111 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 06:18:10 +0000 Softland 111@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>doPDF handles text compression very well, a text only document converted to a PDF will be comparable in size with the output from Adobe Acrobat (if not smaller), but the image compression algorithm is not as powerful as Adobe's. Plus, you're printing to pdf a form filled with Adobe Reader, so the integration between Adobe Reader and Adobe Acrobat it's normal to be better than that between Adobe and doPDF.</p> <p>So there's not much you can do if you already tried changing the resolution and the filesize was the same. </p> http://www.dopdf.com/forum/topic/file-size-difference-between-dopdf-and-adobe#post-106 Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:40:39 +0000 Greg 106@http://www.dopdf.com/forum/ <p>I've noticed that the pdf files produced by doPDF are larger than those produced by Adobe Acrobat. For example, a form filled in using Adobe Reader and then printed using the doPDF printer is twice the size of the one printed using the Adobe printer driver (72kb vs 36kb). I tried adjusting the graphic resolution downwards in the doPDF printer preferences, first from the default 300 to 150 (file size went to 59kb) and then down to 72 (file size stayed at 59kb). The image produced in both isn't as good as the Adobe printed pdf.</p> <p>While these differences are small, I deal with hundreds of pdf's that get attached to a database and it can add up over time. Is there an explanation for the difference and/or anything I can do about it? </p>