Huge file size

[dandaka]

I have created simple PDF out of 33 KB .md → 9 MB size... For 8 pages document without pictures it is more than 1 MB/page.

I have checked document in Illustrator and here it is. Text is not stored as text, but as curves. All text. Looks terribly wrong.

For my cases this is a surely not acceptable. Maybe there is an option to include text as text, not as curves?

[nickcmaynard]

Also seeing this.

[alanshaw]

Hi both, thanks for reporting. There's an issue open on phantomjs (the module that renders the PDF from HTML) so hopefully it'll be fixed soon: ariya/phantomjs#10373

[nickcmaynard]

Thanks - do you have any views on when that's likely to happen? That issue's been open for 2 years now, and the latest thought is PhantomJS 2 might fix it, but we don't have a date for that. Have you tested with a PhantomJS 2 build?

[adamwong246]

+1 Same here. Enormous file and unselectable text.
I'm installing phantomjs 2 with brew, which seems to indicate a patch would fix this problem. No success yet however

[jhawkinsatgood]

For what it's worth, PhantomJS on Windows produces texty PDFs instead of just images.

[jomag]

Same problem. 15k markdown results in 4.8 MB PDF. The problem seems to be that the fonts are converted to path. This is a showstopper for me. Any progress on this?

[anko]

This is an OS-X-only PhantomJS issue.

This PR ariya/phantomjs#13243 looks like a fix. People on OS X, could you test and recommend upstream to merge it?

[adamwong246]

I'm not optimistic about ariya/phantomjs#13243. I ran some tests with https://github.com/astefanutti/phantomjs/tree/QTBUG-10094 and was unable to achieve better results :-(

[astefanutti]

@adamwong246 would you be able to share a reproducible test case so that I can give a run and confirm or not whether ariya/phantomjs#13243 fixes that issue as well.

[webdif]

I just tested markdown-pdf with providing phantomPath to v2 binary of phantomJS, with no luck.
The size of the file was divided by 2 and the font is different, but I am still having curves, not texts.

[alanshaw]

Please give v7.0.0 of markdown-pdf a go - phantomjs finally fixed this issue

[adamwong246]

+1 Thanks a lot!