PDF-Invoice very large after Upgrade

[plumsl]

Hi,

after Upgrade tu 4.2.1 and moving to another folder (whmcs is still working)

the size of the invoice-file is larger than 500kB (before 70 k).

also the charakters are very frayed/unsharp/unclear/blurred (right word?)

 

What could be the cause/reason?

 

thanks for some ideas!

 

Plumsl

[plumsl]

Problem solved!

 

I use the tcpdf.php (in the /includes -dir) from version 4.1.2

sure, it's quick 'n dirty but it works!

 

nevertheless I'm interested abut the reason.

if somebody has a solution .... ?!

 

plumsl

[gerrybakker]

I have the same problem.

[Matt]

This must be due to the change of font. The previous default font only worked with certain characters and the new font works for a lot more, but is therefore larger. The old font is still included so to use that again, simply open includes/tcpdf.php and replace line 3263:

 

$family = (strtolower($CONFIG["Charset"])=="utf-8") ? "freesans" : "helvetica"; # Pick font based on charset

 

with this:

 

$family = "helvetica";

 

Matt

[web2010]

I am noticing the same with the large file size. I already have $family = "helvetica"; in the code

[plumsl]

Thanks Matt!

Now it works with the new (4.2.1) version of tcpdf.php

[web2010]

I am using the latest version of WHMCS - not an upgrade.

 

My pdfs are over 500kb in size.

 

How should I be fixing this?

[plumsl]

It does not matter whether your using an upgrade or not.

it's the same file. try the way matt has shown an I think it will be

also work for you.

[omnigenus]

Has to be the font...seems like the font is being "attached" to the pdf file

[oempire]

much better - worked perfectly.. remember the instructions says replace the whole line

[stumblrmonk3]

Worked for me. Great fix!

[springs]

Just a note that this worked for us as well. I honestly didn't even realize it until reading this post, but a 488KB file dropped down to 11KB in size.

 

Thanks for the Tip!

[eternitynz]

I am using the latest version (4.2) and have the same issues. The font line replacement worked for filesize but the logo image still looks blurry and unprofessional

 

How can we fix the logo from blurring? the source image is perfect its somehow being altered by the invoice

 

Vin

[Unihost]

Awesome, this worked for me, I went from 479kb to 10kb

[jprince]

Alternatively, you can continue to use the new fonts by not embedding the font.

http://www.tecnick.com/public/code/cp_dpage.php?aiocp_dp=tcpdf_fonts

 

See Step 4.

Important part, is to comment out the $file= in the following files:

freesans.php

freesansb.php

freesansbi.php

freesansi.php

[plusplushosting]

Im in 4.2.1 and i already have:

 

$family = "helvetica";

 

and the pdf is around 500kb....so im missing something?

 

Thanx!

[scool]

changing the line 3263 as Matt says, it also ruins my utf-8 encoding.

the pdf file is now smaller of course, but he encoding is lost

the characters ???????? appearing all over the pdf invoice

[stumblrmonk3]

As of version 4.4.1, it is not line 3263, instead it's line 6525.

 

I really wish there was an option to do this in the Admin area instead of editing files.

[plusplushosting]

hmmm...nope...continue being the line 3263

[IntaHost-Steve]

Not sure how embedding the font and causing a 500kb+ invoice size is considered good practice 3 patches later...

 

A better option/fix would be wise I feel.

[wsd]

WHMCS System Requirements: PHP Version 5.x or later

tcpdf.php is still version 4.6.016_PHP4

I update to version 5.9.055 TCPDF without some problems and now my PDF files not larger end 35 KB

I update because I will try to get it to work with the FPDF and FPDI so I can use a PDF template