Reducing Dynamic Stamp Size with Embedded Fonts

[kellydigital]

I have made a bunch of dynamic stamps in Acrobat DC PRO - however - most of my stamps are around 1.5-2MB in file size.  

This is due to the fact that 99% of the file size is taken up by fonts

I read that if you use Arial/Helvetica/Times New Roman or Symbol fonts - it doesn't need to include the fonts - but even after switching all fields on my dynamic stamp to Arial - the font size (and file size) didn't improve.

The main issue we are having is users are adding multiple stamps to a document and the file size is growing exponentially - so big that a PDF can't be emailed.

For example - if i take a plain 32KB PDF - and I add four 2MB stamps - the PDF file size becomes 36MB.

[ls_rbls]

You're probably getting that result because of using the current character set in the stamps without regards to the character encoding.

If you're using a significant amount of text in a bunch of stamps then what you probably need to work around is on the character encoding. That is where the real bump in byte code is.

If the file size end result is what really matters in this project then maybe (just maybe ) you should consider using Open Type fonts instead of True Type.

If you really want to get deep  into this topic see here: http://kunststube.net/encoding/

You may also want to use this guidance as reference: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/ttch01

[Test Screen Name]

" read that if you use Arial/Helvetica/Times New Roman or Symbol fonts " - this info is slightly wrong. You must use Helvetica, Times New Roman or Courier. Not anything which has a similar name, or similar appearance. Arial is not in the list. 

[try67]

Regarding the exponential file-size: if you use the Save As command and save it under a new name then it should consolidate all of those fonts and dramatically decrease the file-size.

Or use one of the fonts that are built-in into the application, ie not Arial.

[JR Boulay]

You should read this article about "Standard PDF fonts": https://www.abracadabrapdf.net/ressources-et-tutos/js-et-formulaires-ressources/les-14-polices-stand...

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