Why is the PDF file that Sage produces so big ?

When we create order acknowledgements using our own forms created using report designer, the file size produced for emailing is 1MB for a single A4 page, yet if I save the file and use the Adobe Acrobat File Reduce option to reduce the file size, the produced PDF shrinks drastically to around 30K without detriment to the contents.

Can't Sage use a better PDF creation application or at least implement file size reduction during the creation process.

Another strange things is, that if I choose to print using my Adobe Printer rather than email PDF directly using Sage, the document produced has missing elements, meaning you have to use the Sage PDF writer if you want the PDF to look like you want it to.

This is very frustrating and with us on a poor internet network connection thanks to BT, it kills the server when sending multiple emails as the file size for each email is too large.

Please look into this and remedy the PDF writer tool.