Greetings,
I am seeking assistance tracking the source of a behavior we've noticed with regards to the printing of a wPDF-sourced PDF file (which can be downloaded here http://download.yousendit.com/0720F2C773537E9E. As indicated in the screen-capture below, the PDF file in question was created using some form of wPDF, and at a mere 3 megabytes in size and 25 pages in length, it looks innocent enough. The PDF doesn't seem to be in color either. Given all this, we were quite shocked to see this document when printed spooled to well over 550MB. I got this screen capture when it was 3/4's of the way spooling.
The excess size effectively killed (a little bit of hyperbole there) our well-equipped, HP printer--turning the 70+ ppm speed demon into a 10- ppm sloth. Meanwhile, several other print jobs queued up behind it had to wait the extra two to three minutes to be printed.
Is there anything about the wPDF creation process that should/could cause a file of 3MB's to spool to such an enormous size, and is there anything that can be done to tame these beasts? We don't own wPDF ourselves, and we didn't create the document. We received it as a result of a materials request placed with another institution for a document they held in their library's collection.
Thanks much. :)