RTF To PDF

[Peter]

When printing PDF files to laser printers the print file becomes several
times as big as the original file size and this becomes a problem when
printing to remote printers over slow connections. For instance 1 page PDF
original size 224Kb generates 3.41 MB print file and that becomes a problem
when printing 20 pager report.

Does anyone know if there is a way to reduce the print file size?

One option is to create RTF files instead of PDF files, the RTF print files
are about 3 to 4 times smaller than the PDF print files, but I need to merge
two or 3 documents into one because they are also emailed as one document.
So does anyone know of .NET library to merge RTF files? I am using iText to
merge PDF files, but I don't see a function to merge RTF files with iText.


Thank You



Peter

 

[Linda Liu[MSFT]]

Hi Peter,

When printing PDF files to laser printers the print file becomes several

times as big as the original file size

What do you mean by the "print file" in the above sentence?

I found several articles discussing how to reduce the PDF file size on the
Internet and hope they would help you:

'PDF file prints smaller or larger than expected (Acrobat 5.0-6.0 products
on Windows)'
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=323299&sliceId=2

'5 Tricks to Reduce PDF File Size'
http://blog.nitropdf.com/index.php/2008/02/11/5-tricks-to-shrinkreduce-pdf-f
ile-size/

As for merging RTF files, I found an application called "MONKEY MERGE",
which can merge RTF files. You may get it from the following link:
http://www.filedudes.com/monkey_merge-download-43076.html

Hope this helps.
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
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[Peter]

What I mean is the spool file from printing of a PDF file not the actual PDF
file (spool file = print file).

A 41K PDF spools to 458K, that's 10X as big, this becomes a problem when
printing to remote printers on a slow connection, a 3 MB PDF files because
30 MB spool files, but when printing the same file in RTF format the file
spools to 6 MB.

MONKEY MERGE will not help me because I need a library for my custom .NET
application.

 

[Linda Liu[MSFT]]

Hi Peter,

Thank you for your reply!

I have spent more than one hour searching a .NET class library to merge RTF
files but without success.

In fact, a simple workaround is to use the RichTextBox control to do what
you want.

In detail,
1. Create two instances of RichTextBox in the application.
2. Call the RichTextBox.LoadFile method to load the first RTF file into the
first RichTextBox control.
3. Select and copy the content in the first RichTextBox control to
Clipboard by calling the SelectAll and Copy methods of the RichTextBox
class.
4. Paste the content from Clipboard to the second RichTextBox control by
calling the RichTextBox.Paste method.
5. Repeat the step2 to step4 to merge all the RTF files to the second
RichTextBox control.
6. Save the content in the second RichTextBox to a .RTF file by calling the
RichTextBox.SaveFile method.

The following is a sample:

private void MergeRTFFiles(string[] rtffiles, string outputfile)
{
RichTextBox richTextBox1 = new RichTextBox();
RichTextBox richTextBox2 = new RichTextBox();

foreach (string filepath in rtffiles)
{
if (File.Exists(filepath))
{
richTextBox1.LoadFile(filepath);
richTextBox1.SelectAll();
richTextBox1.Copy();
richTextBox2.Paste();
}
}
richTextBox2.SaveFile(outputfile);
richTextBox1.Dispose();
richTextBox2.Dispose();
richTextBox1 = null;
richTextBox2 = null;
}

Hope this helps.
If you have any question, please feel free to let me know.

Sincerely,
Linda Liu
Microsoft Online Community Support

Delighting our customers is our #1 priority. We welcome your comments and
suggestions about how we can improve the support we provide to you. Please
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