help needed for images

[amar]

hello FOP group,   i am generating the pdf file from fo file, it works good, but i need to add images to the pdf file, i have images in jpg format and images size is around 200k. when the pdf is renedred, it creates the pdf file with huge size around (4MB) , any solutions to this.   i use the following to add images to pdf file   <fo:external-graphic  text-align=\"center\"  src="">   please help   amar