I have just used FileMaker 8 to create my monthly invoicing pdfs. Usually these are two pages of text per file (including one small PICT graphic) and come in about 300K. In FileMaker 8 they are a massive 2.9MB. To double-check I swapped back to v7 and produced them from there - no problem, they came out at 300K each. I PDFed another report in v8 with just text and it was still 10 times bigger than one produced in v7. Anyone else getting massive PDFs? (Mac G4 10.4.2).

Ian

Edited September 3, 200520 yr by Guest

I just made one of my two-page monthly subsummary reports and used the new pdf maker, it came in at 160KB. When I make the same report into a pdf using print to pdf on 10.4.2, it is 636K, and it's the same with 7v3 or 8v1.

Are you using Print-Save as PDF

or the new function... Save Records as PDF ?

the 2nd one is the new filemaker function which should work better.

I think there are options with the filemaker pdf export in 8 that allow you to turn the resolution to low/med/high... but sorry, I can't seem to find them right now. (so maybe that's not true).. can anyone confirm this ?

Aha - you're dead right, I was using the old print command and choosing save as PDF, but using the new 'Save Records as PDF' command saves it as a 480K file - still bigger than the 364K with v7 but I can live with that.

Thanks for your help.

I just saved (File>Send/Save menu item) a report (128 pages) with the new PDF capability in version 8, and the resulting file size was 5.3 MB. Just to test, I created a PDF of the same report by printing directly to Adobe Acrobat 6. That file size was just 400 KB, about what it was with Version 7.

Is there some setting that I'm missing that would cause such bloat in file size?

I'm using Windows XP Pro.