PDF files created in AX are too large

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Dear all,

I would like to know whether it's possible to manipulate the size of pdf-files created in AX. When saved any list in Dynamics AX as pdf-file, this file has a size of 1 MB, even if the file exists of 2 or 3 lines. The shrinked file has only 40KB.

Does somebody know of any setting or procedure in AX causing the pdf-files to be created in real size?

Thanks in advance

egydd

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Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

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Creating PDF files in AX is a transparent process driven by the kernel/application DLLs.

If you want different behavior, you could try to install a printer driver that can save documents to PDF within the driver and see if you could get different results.

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How exactly do you "save a list as PDF file"?

I don't know what's your definition of "the real size"; I'll assume you simply want it smaller. A reasonable course for you analysis would be checking why it's so big, e.g. whether it doesn't include large fonts.

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I'm already using that way of producing pdf. In the print Option I'm either selecting "send by E-Mail" or "save on drive".

I just made a Little test. I created a word-document existing of 5 pages and app 1360 words written in Calibri 11 and saved that as pdf: size 164 KB. When I saved a three line list in AX as pdf ( or sent by E-Mail, doesn't matter) that pdf got 1 MB size. Why? Seems there's not really a solution for that, is it?

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As I just answered to Vilmos Kintera I select the way via printing. Yes you're right, it's important to get smaller pdf-file for there are many files sent to Exchange Mailbox, assuming all of these files have more than 1 MB, the mailbox will be full in a short time.

The files do not exist of large Fonts, only simple lists, some of them have only 2 or 3 lines , others a few hundreds. That's why I need to know why it happens and if possible to change it. Any idea what the reason could be?

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How exactly did you verify that the size increase isn't caused by embedded fonts? It's seems to me that your claim isn't based on any facts.

I'm not good at guessing either, therefore finding the reason by analyzing the file sounds like a better strategy to me.

If your analysis reveals that you can't influence the report printing to avoid the problem, you could use an API to generate the PDF file by yourself, which will allow you to control all details. But it would clearly be much more work.

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