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Decrease PDF size. Compress images? [message #49437]

Fri, 09 February 2018 15:38

shockjockey
Messages: 3
Registered: July 2016

Junior Member

Hello all!

I am working on a converter that will extract and stitch a number of JPG files together into a single PDF file and lay text on top of it. This works fine but my problem is that the PDF file is very big, about 5 to 10 times the size of the JPG files combined. I wondered if I should take a different approach or could add some code to compress the images in the resulting PDF?\

This is a simplified code example of what I am doing so far:

Image img = StreamRaster::LoadStringAny("C:\\path\\to\\jpg.jpg");

Report r;
				
r.SetPageSize(img.GetWidth(), img.GetHeight());
				
r.DrawImage(0, 0, img);

String pdf_contents = Pdf(r);

SaveFile("C:\\path\\to\\pdf.pdf", pdf_contents);

Thanks in advance for any pointers in the right direction that you might be able to give me!

[Updated on: Fri, 09 February 2018 15:49]

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