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DHBallantyne
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7 years ago
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Export to PDF - File created is unusually large

When I use the "Export to PDF" option in Power BI Desktop, the resulting PDF seems unusually large. In my case, I have a .PBIX that contains 8 separate tabs, each tab has two or three graphs and som...
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    v-juanli-msft
    7 years ago

    Hi DHBallantyne 

    Based on my knowledge, it seems no such feature to reduce the pdf size in power bi.

    You may submit an idea here.

     

    Here is an idea to use from another user, you may have a try to see if it helps.

     

    Best Regards
    Maggie

     

    Community Support Team _ Maggie Li
    If this post helps, then please consider Accept it as the solution to help the other members find it more quickly.

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ryandec
New Member
6 years ago

I was able to reduce a 20MB PDF file generated from MS BI using Adobe Acrobat's "Reduce File Size" functionality to 240KB.

 

Why is BI generating these massive files which on ocasion are blocked from O365 email due to reaching max file size limit. I don't want to have to add another step of using Acrobat everytime I generate a PDF.

 

Appreciate your help and thanks in advance!

 

- R