Highlighting and file sizes

[danny]

Has anyone noticed how much larger a file is that has been printed to Adobe
Acrobat or Journal Note Writer when a few lines are highlighted with a pen
highlighter?

I see a 3 - 5x increase in file size.

My homework assignments are usually ~ 250k in size for a pdf file printed at
300dpi. If I highlight my answers, it grows to over 1 meg in files size.

I know this is probably not Onenote related, but I'm limited in file size
that I can submit.

Any ideas on how to keep the file size down and still use highlighting.?

regards,

 

[Erik Sojka]

Is the highlighting applied in OneNote or is this a Tablet Ink question? Can
you walk us through a sample workflow of what you're seeing?

 

[danny]

The highlighting is applied in Onenote, and then the pages are printed to a
pdf file through Acrobat Distiller. The same is true if you print to
Journal Note Writer.

Just take a blank page in Onenote and print it to a pdf file or Journal Note
Writer, then note the file size. Then use a highlighter in the Pens
toolbar and draw four line across the page as if highliting four lines of
text. Now print again and note the file size.

You should see a huge change.

I just repeated with Journal Note Writer and the file size went from 6k to
over 1 meg.

As a pdf file it went from 23k to 419k. Again, all of this is done from
with in Onenote.

If you do the same process using Journal rather than Onenote, you don't see
much of a change in files size, about 20k with a pdf file.

Danny