PDF download gigantic, please decrease size

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A fairly simple PDF exported from Coda came out to 500 KB

After decreasing the size using Free PDF Compressor, the pdf came out to 50 KB

Half a MB for every pdf is a little large. It would be nice if there was a compression option or some work was done to reduce the size a bit.

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So I figured out what was going on. Even though the images on the table look very small, the entire full sized image is contained within the pdf. This could be useful, but also might not be desired. An interesting quark.

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Hi, @Andrew_Adkins.
I had the same issue as you. Take a look at my post bellow.

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unfortunalety the text looks like this then:

image
image1517×713 16.3 KB

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Hi, @Roman_Vesely .
There’s actually a better way to reduce a pdf file by reducing the image size.
It uses hidden formulas but it’s pretty safe.

thisRow.Image.First()._merge().ToText().ParseJSON("$.publicUrl").Substitute("[https://codahosted.io/docs/","https://codaio.imgix.net/docs/](https://codahosted.io/docs/%22,%22https://codaio.imgix.net/docs/)" ).Concatenate("?w=800&h=800")

You can use this formula above or there are many more option in this link Rendering API Overview | Rendering API

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thanks so much!! this helps me big time. I made it for each, but works like a breeze so far: thisRow.AllimageUrl.ForEach(
CurrentValue
.Substitute(“https://codahosted.io/docs/”, “https://codaio.imgix.net/docs/”)
).ForEach(
CurrentValue + “?w=800&h=800”
)

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