print to pdf file size

Derek Atkins warlord at MIT.EDU
Mon Dec 24 17:00:25 EST 2007


Heather Daley <gnucash at joyful.limedaley.com> writes:

> When including images in my invoices, the pdf that is created with "print 
> to pdf" in the print dialogue has a massive file size.  I found one small 
> thread from 2004 in the archives 
> (http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.apps.gnucash.user/10771) that 
> describes exactly what is happening, but the solution of printing to ps 
> and converting to pdf does not work for me because the image does not come 
> out correctly.
>
> I have tried just exporting to html, but then the source for the image is 
> on my local system and customers viewing the invoices on the web get a 
> broken image.  I have not found a way to tell gnucash to use an image from 
> a webpage.
>
> Any other ideas?  (I'm running gnucash 2.2.1 on Debian)

Really, this has nothing to do with GnuCash..  This is completely
in the realm of the GtkHtml + GnomePrint/GtkPrint subsystems.
We just call over to them to perform the work, and the PDF writer
is over there.

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-derek

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