Is there anyway to control the PDF output for a report?
Here is what I mean... In Adobe Acrobat, you can control how the PDF is created. Most commonly used are "Standard", Smallest File Size", and "High Quality", which are nothing more then a set of properties before generating the PDF.
Is there any functionality in the Reporting PDF engine to do this? I have a report, that contains a logo and quite allot of data. The report is 10 pages long. The Reporting PDF engine generates a 1.6 meg PDF file.
Generating that same report through Adobe Acrobat (printing through the Adobe PDF Printer), using the "Smallest File Size" setting, I get the same report, with only slightly degraded quality, with a size of 100k.
The reason this is important is that the HTML viewer has limitations because of HTML. Some things just don't render quite right, no matter what you try. However, having the Reporting Engine generate a PDF, and display that PDF takes care of that problem.
The only drawback is the size of some of the PDF's. For those with slower internet connections, that can be annoying.
Is it possible, and if is not, I'd like to see Telerik consider such an option.
Thanks as Always
Kuba Cole
Here is what I mean... In Adobe Acrobat, you can control how the PDF is created. Most commonly used are "Standard", Smallest File Size", and "High Quality", which are nothing more then a set of properties before generating the PDF.
Is there any functionality in the Reporting PDF engine to do this? I have a report, that contains a logo and quite allot of data. The report is 10 pages long. The Reporting PDF engine generates a 1.6 meg PDF file.
Generating that same report through Adobe Acrobat (printing through the Adobe PDF Printer), using the "Smallest File Size" setting, I get the same report, with only slightly degraded quality, with a size of 100k.
The reason this is important is that the HTML viewer has limitations because of HTML. Some things just don't render quite right, no matter what you try. However, having the Reporting Engine generate a PDF, and display that PDF takes care of that problem.
The only drawback is the size of some of the PDF's. For those with slower internet connections, that can be annoying.
Is it possible, and if is not, I'd like to see Telerik consider such an option.
Thanks as Always
Kuba Cole
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Hi Kuba Cole,
For the upcomming release due this December we have plans to add support for configuring the rendering extensions through the application's configuration files. This includes enable/disable specific export format and pass parameters that will control its behavior. As far as PDF export format is concerned the first thing that you will be able to configure whether to embed the fonts that are in use. Currently we always embed all fonts and this is the reason for the larger PDF files (this ensures that you will always have working PDF document).
I hope this information helps.
Sincerely yours,
Svetoslav
the Telerik team
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For the upcomming release due this December we have plans to add support for configuring the rendering extensions through the application's configuration files. This includes enable/disable specific export format and pass parameters that will control its behavior. As far as PDF export format is concerned the first thing that you will be able to configure whether to embed the fonts that are in use. Currently we always embed all fonts and this is the reason for the larger PDF files (this ensures that you will always have working PDF document).
I hope this information helps.
Sincerely yours,
Svetoslav
the Telerik team
Instantly find answers to your questions at the new Telerik Support Center