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grandehombre

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Fortes report - PDF export produces large files.
« on: August 01, 2013, 01:55:27 am »
I am generating a single-page invoice, using Lazarus 1.0.10 and FortesReports 3.24LCLR2 on a Win7-64 PC.
It contains a small bitmap (logo) and text.
When I save it using the Fortes PDFFilter, it generates a 12MB PDF file.
When I print it to CutePDF, I get a 31KB PDF file.

I'd rather stay with the PDFFilter than ask people to install 'PDF' printer drivers.
I am just curious to know if anyone has done any work on this filter and would like to share his/her experiences.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2013, 02:05:03 am by grandehombre »
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Re: Fortes report - PDF export produces large files.
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2013, 02:07:45 am »
No idea but you could postprocess with ps2pdf which is quite good at decreasing PDF size. Don't know if it's available on Windows - it probably is.
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Re: Fortes report - PDF export produces large files.
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2013, 02:22:39 am »
Thanks BigChimp,

I'll give that a shot.
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Re: Fortes report - PDF export produces large files.
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2013, 02:25:31 am »
my assumption is that the filter saves the contents as an image inside the pdf while the driver adds them as text instead. I haven't worked with fortesreport at all but I will bet it would be almost impossible to change that behavior not with out a lot of work.
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Re: Fortes report - PDF export produces large files.
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2013, 05:29:45 am »
hello,

i have tested Fortes vs Lazreport for PDF export  :
Tfrreport + TfrTNPDFExport  vs TRLReport + TRLPDFFilter

the report contains one jpeg picture of 22kb + one Text Font Arial 22  'This is my test'

pdf file size for lazreport : 24 kb.
pdf file size for fortes : 1353 kb.
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Re: Fortes report - PDF export produces large files.
« Reply #5 on: August 05, 2013, 02:03:21 am »
Hi JP,

That's similar to what I get when comparing FR vs print-to-CutePDF.
It would've been nice if there was a way to port the LazReport PDF exporter to Fortes
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Re: Fortes report - PDF export produces large files.
« Reply #6 on: August 05, 2013, 02:30:10 am »
I have now opened a feature-request ticket with the authors.
https://sourceforge.net/p/fortes4lazarus/feature-requests/3/
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