File size infinitely increases when changing form content and saving
Hi!
I could not find anything related searching for 'forms' or 'file size' so here goes.
While filling out my new working hours report using the last month as a template, I noticed that nautilus reported increasing file sizes per version.
That does not make any sense, since I only change the digits in the form elements when I update it for the next month.
I created a minimal example using Qoppa PDF Studio 11 Pro, containing only one text form element.
I saved it empty and then saved it alternating the strings 'test' and 'tset'.
du -B1
, du -b
and nautilus all report the same phenomenon: The file size increases on every save action whenever there are changes.
du -B1
, du -b
and nautilus all report the same phenomenon: The file size increases on every save action whenever there are changes.Here are the test files I used, in case anybody wants to try and reproduce:
test_pdf_with_form.pdf test_pdf_with_form1.pdf test_pdf_with_form2.pdf test_pdf_with_form3.pdf test_pdf_with_form4.pdf test_pdf_with_form5.pdf
Running Evince 42.3-1 on Manjaro GNOME 21.3.7 Kernel 5.15.60-1-MANJARO
Edited by Andreas Schneider