Have a PDF report which has two pages. Page 1 has three graphs and page 2 is a tabular report. The report has been workng fine in WEBFocus 5.2. But i got an error message after moving to version 7.1. Went ahead and changed the HOLD format to SVG instead of GIF. Then the report worked fine. But the file size has been increased tremendously (from 42KB in 5.2 to 810KB in 7.1).
Can anyone of you please suggest me how can i reduce the size of the report?

Thanks in advance.

I opened a case using 7.1.4 where I experienced the same issue. Try changing your files to HOLD FORMAT ALPHA (just in case they are just HOLD right now).

We found that the problem involves using the COMPOUND feature.
Here's a section of my case findings:

There seems to be a bug in ON TABLE HOLD (no format provided) in the 7.1
 release.
 
 While gathering HOLD file information for this case, I found the following:
 
 When the HOLD file BEFORE the PDF is generated is:
 
 HOLD FORMAT ALPHA
 
 The size of the output PDF is:
 
 HOLD (FORMAT ALPHA)
 07/21/2006  01:34 AM         7,663,807 hold.pdf
 
 HOLD (no format provided... therefore internal binary format)
 
 The size of the output PDF is:
 
 HOLD (INTERNAL FORMAT)
 07/21/2006  01:32 AM         9,408,392 hold.pdf
 
 I will upload the actual HOLD files (both ALPHA and INTERNAL format) for your
 research.
 

Bernie,
Thanks so much for the info. But there is no luck even after changing the HOLD format to ALPHA.

I think it is because of the graph format SVG. I tried to change it back to GIF. But the report errors out if i change back to GIF.

Do not know whether the graph engine will not support this GIF format or not.

Please view below link to one of the post in this forum.

Found it really useful.

https://forums.informationbuilders.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/...1057331/m/6581008991