Export speed PDF

[Bastian_Kommerling (Bastian Kömmerling)]

Hi,
I want to save my report as a PDF directly in the file system without user interaction. This works without any problems. However, it takes 8 seconds until the file is written. This is no problem for a single report, but much too slow for my case. Does anyone know if it is possible to speed up the method?

Best regards
Bastian

My Settings:

LL_LLX_EXTENSIONTYPE_EXPORT sEXP “Export.Path” sExportDir to iRet
LL_LLX_EXTENSIONTYPE_EXPORT sEXP “Export.File” sExportFile to iRet
LL_LLX_EXTENSIONTYPE_EXPORT sEXP “Export.Quiet” “1” to iRet
LL_LLX_EXTENSIONTYPE_EXPORT sEXP “Export.ShowResult” “0” to iRet
LL_LLX_EXTENSIONTYPE_EXPORT sEXP “Export.ShowResultAvailable” “0” to iRet
LL_LLX_EXTENSIONTYPE_EXPORT sEXP “Export.OnlyTableData” “0” to iRet
LL_LLX_EXTENSIONTYPE_EXPORT sEXP “Export.AllnOneFile” “1” to iRet
LL_LLX_EXTENSIONTYPE_EXPORT sEXP “FontMode” “0” to iRet
LL_LLX_EXTENSIONTYPE_EXPORT sEXP “JPECQuality” “0” to iRet

Get PrintFirstData to iRet
Get LLPrintEnd of hoLL
Get LLJobClose of hoLL

[jbartlau (combit - Jochen Bartlau)]

Without details on the used version, data source and the report it’s somehow hard to say what might cause the delay here. How many pages does the report have? Does it make extensive of images? You may also check the hints in this article:

PDF Export: File Sizes and Optimizations

Valid from List & Label 13 Below you will find recommendations for optimising the file size and speed when performing the PDF export: General The export to PDF format may cause different file sizes even when using the identical database but on different operating systems and / or different printer drivers. If dashed or dotted lines / frames are used in the project file, the resulting PDF file can become very large, since each dot / dash is represented as a single PDF record. In order to keep …

Feel free to return here with more details.

[Bastian_Kommerling (Bastian Kömmerling)]

@jbartlau

Without details on the used version, data source and the report it’s somehow hard to say what might cause the delay here. How many pages does the report have? Does it make extensive of images? You may also check the hints in this article:

Hi, sorry. I use LL25 my report is always one page. I import 2 PDFs in the background. There are 17 variables that represent checkboxes. The generated PDF document is under 1MB in size. I hope this helps.

[jbartlau (combit - Jochen Bartlau)]

I"d suggest to take a look into the log file . It contains time stamps and may help to find the culprit. See here:

Troubleshooting Guidance

Introduction This article is intended to help you to find and fix errors and issues on your own. It gives you tips on how to best handle a problem that occurs, how to search for the problem, and what to do in what order. If you still need to contact our technical support team, it will help you make the initial preparations to provide as much information as possible. A large attention is paid to the so-called debugging. Debugging in our case means to examine your program live for errors during…

Also, depending on the content of the PDFs, they might result in large temporary files being created. See here:

I Have a Small Background Image – Why Does the Print Process Use That Much Memory?

JPEG or PNG files are often used as a kind of letterhead replacement. In this case a scan of the desired background is inserted into the project to fill the entire page. Even if these background graphics are only a few MB in size, a large increase in memory is evident at the time of printing the project. The reason is that not all printer drivers can handle the JPEG and/or PNG format. In order to make the output usable on all printers afterwards, such files must therefore be temporarily convert…