Large PDF Files

I'm not exactly sure of the resolution but the cause is how the Bentley driver defines white space. Adobe sees white space as blank or missing pixels. It seems the Bentley driver wants to give them a specific RGB designation. We have seen this with a number of different PDF producing softwares. Hope this helps even though it's not a complete solution.

Steve

If you have Adobe Acrobat v8.0 or higher you can go to the documen pull down and choose 'Reduce File Size' to eliminate the white space. I know this wasn't available in v5.0 but it showed up when I upgraded from that to v8.0.

TRJ-CCE:

If you have Adobe Acrobat v8.0 or higher you can go to the documen pull down and choose 'Reduce File Size' to eliminate the white space. I know this wasn't available in v5.0 but it showed up when I upgraded from that to v8.0.

Unfortunately when you do this it doubles the size of the pdf file !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Now why I have to go to these extremes I don't know. But if I create a PDF from XM with the Bentley Driver it is 4,461,003, then open it in Adobe Acrobat 8.0  do Document > Optimixe Scanned PDF I can make the PDF good resolution (plotted D-Size and looked at it) and it is only 118,315. When you need to email 20-30 files this makes a big difference.

Not sure if this will help but there should be a setting for resolution. Try changing it to 2.

 (this is from the pdf.plt, This also should be int pdfpltcfg)

;------------------------------------------------------------------------------
; Control printing permissions. Default qualifier is "1". Legal values are:
; 0 = Do not allow printing
; 1 = Allow high resolution printing
; 2 = Allow only low resolution printing
; Either the owner or user password must be set for this setting to be honored.
CmdName /appname="pdf" /command="AllowPrinting" /qualifier="1"
;------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Also, try changing the quality to less than 100:

; The following record controls the quality of rasterized plots.
; The range is 0 < quality <= 100. The default is 100, which means plots
; are rasterized at full device resolution. Smaller values may be used to
; reduce rasterized plot file size.
rasterized_parameters /quality=100

Just a thought. This may or may not work for you.