Turning off compression results naturally to bigger PDF files. I have found that the compression or optimization functions in PDF applications like Acrobat or PDF Xchange Editor can reduce the resulting files quite much without any apparent loss of quality.
Thanks - I posted those files in that Vector rendering thread btw.
Also - yes zooming in is the thing I’m wanting to enable more of… @jbacus I use this very often.
With a high-res PDF, we can render just 1 page quickly and then then zoom in on it during a meeting. This is much faster and better than a multi-page document. Any markups and comments are done across the whole project and can be printed or exported from just that 1 sheet. Much easier to manage.
Another common use is when we take a PDF (may be A1 scale) and then arrange it on differnet pages within a document (such as an indesign document); here, we may zoom, crop and rotate the LO PDF for various purposes.
Finally, and not frequently, but importantly; sometimes we send things to GIS or CAD operators and they request a PDF to use as an underlay to help line things up or to trace information on top of. High res is definitely much better for this. Not all info in a project can be sent to them in Vector mode (aerial photos being an example).
Those are just a few use cases from the top of my head, Im sure others have diffferent examples.
I’m not really concerned with how large a file size might become at 600dpi; the reality is that Raster rendering mode in LO is necessary for some content and will take less time for use to render and output than a Vector or Hybrid.
Maybe a decent exporter could be written (similar to Photoshop’s) which allows an adjsutment of DPI or pixels (and JPG/PNG compression) while simultaneously displaying the resulting file size?
If we are concerned with file size, we can always batch compress or downsample it using PDF software.
Cheers.
Sam
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The bigger PDF need not be the case. JPEG can add fuzz to a crisp image that is mostly flat colored areas. PNG, or any RLE like compressor will be fairly efficient.
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