dealing with these *huge* pdf files generated

[Richmond]

On 06/01/2013 10:58 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> Dr. Hawkins wrote
>> But that doesn't seem to do it:  "Nor can it be used to modify
>> existing PDF documents or extract text from them."
>>
>> The issue here isn't *generating* a pdf, but that when I export a card
>> to one, livecode is *horribly* inefficient, making a file 10 times the
>> size it should be.
> Could any of these options help to reduce PDF size?
>
> http://smallpdf.com/
> http://www.pdfcompressor.org/
> https://discussions.apple.com/thread/3048661?start=0&tstart=0
> http://www.usfca.edu/uploadedFiles/Destinations/Offices_and_Services/ITS/learning/training/pdf_files/reducing_pdfs_mac_PC.pdf
>
> By the way, I still believe that a PDF build using Quartam
> must be smaller than a PDF created in an automatic way. :)
>
> Al
>
>
>

One of the ways, which is, admittedly, immensely tedious, is to import a 
PDF page by page into GIMP
and export them as images.

Probably a way to automate that????

Why did I suggest that? Good question: a bit like why people climb Mount 
Everest/Chomolungma: 'cos it's there.

Richmond.