Can someone please review the Accountright PDF generation with an aim to reduce the size of invoices (Print or Save to Disk)
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For years, my invoices generated from Excel / LibreOffice were generally around 40kb for a single page with a simple logo.
My bookeeper created an invoice template with the same business logo and a tiny little bank logo next to the payment details. The generated PDFs were 1.6MB Using LibreDraw, I was able to identify a significant contributor was the bank logo at about 1MB shrunk down to about 20 pixels.
After removing the bank logo the invoice PDF files are still around 350kb.
I tried several pdf generation tools including CuteWriter and Microsoft PDF Writer. CuteWriter has the ability to customise output resolution paper size etc.
I discovered the best outcome is to open the Invoice PDF with FireFox browser then print to a new file. The file size is now down to 95kb.
There is no loss of clarity, resolution is fine, text is selectable.
I believe the PDF library is CairoGraphics.
Please feel free to contact me for more details.
