Comments on Profile Post by atomicbob

  1. atomicbob
    atomicbob
    A measurement suite runs with results sent to an html report. This suite reduces my measurement time necessary by almost 50%. HTML is then converted to pdf for uploading. However the pdf approximately 1.2 to 1.5 MB, just a bit over size limit for posting single files on this forum.
    Jul 5, 2019
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  2. atomicbob
    atomicbob
    Zipfile compression only nets another 100KB reduction. Suggestions on how to make this data available? PM me if interested in a preview for ECP Audio T4 data. Will need an email address to which I can send 1.5 MB pdf files.
    Jul 5, 2019
  3. Syzygy
    Syzygy
    If the graphs are PNG or JPG, can you emit them as SVG instead?

    That potentially could save some MBs on conversion to PDF, since they're vectors instead of bitmaps.
    Jul 5, 2019
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  4. atomicbob
    atomicbob
    @Syzygy - I experimented with converting png to svg. 60KB png grew to 80KB svg. I have found a program that splits the pdf pages into separate pngs which would make uploading to the forum possible, though at the expense of approximately 8 MB over two posts instead of 1.5 MB in one post.
    Jul 6, 2019
  5. Syzygy
    Syzygy
    That…seems weird and wrong to me.

    However, maybe there are a *lot* of data points on each graph? SVG is just XML, so you can look at it with a text editor. I can't think of any other reason why the SVG would be so big comparably.
    Jul 6, 2019
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  6. atomicbob
    atomicbob
    The graphs contain a lot of data points and converted to numerous vectors, they are rather complex. Will explore some alternatives.
    Jul 7, 2019
  7. Azteca
    Azteca
    Honestly I would think site admins/staff would raise the file size limit for you. You aren't about to to upload a movie.
    Jul 10, 2019
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  8. atomicbob
    atomicbob
    @Azteca - That would make life easy for me but require pdf viewers on the readers' browsers. dScope reports generated are HTML and I'm exploring a combination of unix tools + photo editors + file manipulation to convert HTML to png such that I could upload 10 pngs in a row and have them self-documenting. Labeling uploaded graphs is one of the more time consuming, tedious tasks in my measurement posts.
    Jul 11, 2019
  9. Syzygy
    Syzygy
    Jul 11, 2019
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  10. atomicbob
    atomicbob
    developed a system of photomarks (resize graphics used by html) - sed (edit html) - DocuFreezer (convert) to get from html to png.
    Jul 12, 2019
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