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Topic: Re: Scanned PDF increase size when printing (Via Email)
Conf: (P-PDF) What's Wrong with my PDF?, Msg: 140906
From: LeonardR
Date: 10/9/2005 11:44 PM
At 12:08 PM 10/9/2005, p-pdf-whats-wrong-with-my-pdf Listmanager wrote:
> I have a scanned PDF, filesize 172KB, yet when I print, it goes
> to the printer as an 80MB document. Can anyone explain why this is so.
Without seeing the document in question, I am just making an
educated guess...
I suspect that you applied JBIG2 compression to your scanned
document. JBIG2 is a GREAT technology for scans for keeping the file
size down. However, as it is not supported natively on most printers
- the data must be uncompressed and then sent that way (uncompressed)
to the printer.
Leonard
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