Enroute Chart PDF issues

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Enroute Chart PDF issues

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Patrick	Patrick posted 11/18/2014 5:22:12 PM HOT Topic Details Share Topic
Group: Forum Members Posts: 19, Visits: 78	Hi, This has been bothering me for a while: I like to generate a PDF of the enroute charts and print it later in order to take a paper copy as a backup to my iPad. The generated PDFs are MASSIVE in size. It takes ages to open them - the different layers are built up individually in the Adobe Reader and on slow computers (such as often found at flight schools, rental outfits) will never open. It also takes ages to print them and sometimes, some layers (or colors?) or omitted, resulting in unusable print outs (after spending half on hour getting the printer to print them). Has this been noted before? Is there going to be a better implementation of the PDF printing feature? Regards Patrick
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Tim Dawson	Tim Dawson posted 11/24/2014 3:15:35 PM ANSWER Post Details Share Post
Group: Forum Members Posts: 8.1K, Visits: 9.4K	Because printing APIs do not work that way. We send vector data to the print subsystem in order that the printed output is as high-quality as possible. We do not have control over how specific print-to-PDF tools may work, but it's very possible you may be able to find one which would perform the step you suggested of converting all output to a resolution-limited bitmap. You would undoubtedly lose quality of course, but that is your decision. We really can't do anything to help from within SkyDemon, sorry.
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