2.0 beta / Mac OS X 10.9.5 - PDF question

• Nov 5, 2014 - 16:53

Hi, folks.

I've been using 2.0 beta for a project and have generally been pretty happy with it.

I do notice that Exported PDF files are really quite large. And when I look at the file properties via Acrobat, it appears that the pages are being rendered as raster (bitmap) as opposed to vector (no fonts embedded).

If I select Print > PDF > Open PDF in Preview, I get a vector PDF that's significantly smaller in size (on the order of 80% smaller for a three-page document) with embedded subsets of all the fonts used.

If it's the case that Export is silently producing raster PDF as output, I don't see controls for tweaking the resolution of the exported pages. (I see in preferences that PNG/SVG output DPI can be configured, but it's not clear to me whether this has an effect on PDF export.)

Seems like I have a workaround in place for generating reasonably sized vector PDFs, but I was curious as to whether this was a characteristic of export on all platforms, or specific to Mac OS X.

Thanks in advance!

- jeff


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