What can we do to make the PDF reports smaller then they are being generated using the basic COMPOUNDing?

We have replaced the reports, which were previously generated using Oracle Report Builder, with WebFOCUS reporting (Yea!).

The downside is that the file sizes are now an average of 3.4 times bigger.

These are FTP'd to a server for future access which need to be opened directly, so, please, no "zipping" suggestions.

As you can see from the below information, we started the WebFOCUS version of these reports on Nov 14th.

Directory   / ReportName Mon Day  File Size
------------ ----------- --- ---  ---------
Week31of2012/report1.pdf Sep  12    4,245
Week32of2012/report1.pdf Sep  19    4,255
Week32of2012/report1.pdf Sep  19    4,255
Week33of2012/report1.pdf Sep  26    4,245
Week34of2012/report1.pdf Oct   3    4,240
Week35of2012/report1.pdf Oct  10    4,240
Week37of2012/report1.pdf Oct  24    4,245
Week38of2012/report1.pdf Oct  31    4,245
Week39of2012/report1.pdf Nov   7    4,276

Week40of2012/report1.pdf Nov  14   14,436
Week41of2012/report1.pdf Nov  21   14,431
Week42of2012/report1.pdf Nov  28   14,324
Week43of2012/report1.pdf Dec   5   14,439
Week44of2012/report1.pdf Dec  12   14,330
Week45of2012/report1.pdf Dec  19   14,432
Week46of2012/report1.pdf Dec  26   14,437
Week47of2012/report1.pdf Jan  02   14,321
Week48of2012/report1.pdf Jan  09   14,323
Week49of2012/report1.pdf Jan  16   14,435

Thanks in advance... Doug

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There is a setting to compress the PDF reports.

Have you tried that out ?

The setting is FILECOMPRESS = ON|OFF

Waz, IOU 3.4 something... That looks like it works.

Do you know of ANY disadvantage of using ON instead of OFF?

Why would OFF be the default?

From what I understand about it, it turns on the normal PDF compression.

The only difference would be that the PDF document is smaller and can't be edited by a text editor I guess.

Thanks Again Waz I'll be saving some disk space with 11k+ reports per week...

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