Description coolguy Mising name 2009-06-26 11:54:44 EDT

Build ID: 2.3.2

Steps To Reproduce:
1. Alternative [Simplest] way:- Create a report with one text field in BIRT. Generate PDF report. The size of the file is 10KB. [where as in Jasper reports and Crystal, the same thing results in a 1KB report ]
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More information:
Jason suggested to open a bug for this issue:- 

Is there a way to reduce the size of the pdf report that BIRt generates? I tried to generate a report with around 400 records that spans across 25 pages (with a logo in each page). The generated report size was around 300K where as a similar report generated in Jasper report and crystal consumed only 80K. I'm using BIRT version 2.3.2. However I tried using 2.5RC4 and the size is more or less the same.

In my opinion, product evaluations of reporting tools gives BIRT a red flag due to this[despite intuitive designer and strong feature set]. Hence I marked the severity as major.