Just did a quick test - two cards, each with a field containing a single line of text, the first card has two checkboxes labelled A and B, the second has two label fields ('x A' and 'x B'). Exported both cards to PDF: card 1 - 11,100 bytes, card 2 - 3,500 bytes. If you are rendering a lot of those (or other button types) over lots of pages then I guess it could start to add up.
Terry... On 03/06/2013, at 01:38 PM, Dr. Hawkins wrote: > On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:15 PM, Terry Judd <terry.j...@unimelb.edu.au>wrote: > >> Perhaps you could 'replace' all the bitmaps with either graphic or text >> objects when you do your pdf export. If you have lots of checkboxes for >> example you could replace these with a simple x or tick. Any buttons you >> don't really need to show could also go. > > > Wait a minute . . . shouldn't a checkbox be a postscript drawn object, not > a bitmap? That would be *easier* in postscript than a bitmap (although > I've never written pdf directly; just postscript. Is there a shortcut?) > > A sane postscript output would put functions into the output, and each box > or checkbox would be a function call with 5 paramaters (2 corners & width); > and similarly for a line. > > The pdfwriter code seems to be only a few pages long, but I haven't gotten > my c++ (let alone objective c) back up to speed yet. > > BTW, my output is completely devoid of bitmaps (OK, there is a single > repeated bitmap in the cover page pdf; the firm logo). > > > > > > > -- > Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. > (702) 508-8462 > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > Dr Terry Judd Senior Lecturer in Medical Education Medical Eduction Unit Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry & Health Sciences The University of Melbourne _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode