Created PDFs seem to be corrupt / problematic?

[civihis]

Hi all, I have the following problem: when I generate a report and then save it as a pdf (in the printing dialog of mac os x, not pdf distiller), then I get a huge file -- around 3 mb for 10 pages of text ?!? -- and one that my printer refuses to print and preview can't seem to open. Acrobat can open it, but an attempt to run the "reduce file size" command leaves acrobat hanging and it, too, crashes. when I print the report using acrobat distiller, i get a smaller file size (around 350 kb -- still too big in my opinion), but many of the characters a garbled and the layouts begins to look wobly. is there anything i can do? anyone know the problem?

best, civihis

[CoZiMan]

Wow.

This could be a multitude of issues, but I'll settle on one to start.

How about a corrupt/missing font? Seems most likely in my experience.

Send me a sample file and I'll determine the issues (probably).

I use fmp to generate pdf'sthe same way all the time.

[civihis]

Many thanks for the reply. I've done some digging and come up with the following:

I am trying to print a filemaker report to a pdf document, however, the resulting file size is always huge (about 3.5 mb for a 12 page document with only text and a few seperation lines) -- i.e., see above.

When I press the save to pdf button the following happnes:

- filemaker prints normally

- then nothing happens (the resulting file size is 0 kb)

- then a program called cgpdftopdf starts up and runs for a minute

- the file then swells to 3,5 mb

Any ideas? i assume that cgpdftopdf is somehow a carbon graphics pdf folter so that my text is vectorized. how the heck can i turn this off? any ideas? I just want a reguler old file.