Compressing PDF files during creation/distillation

[WalterKeats]

We are transitioning from our in-house server to using MS OneDrive.  One problem we have noticed is that if PDF files are larger than a few Mbs they take more time and cause problems trying to upload.  I end up having to take PDFs that are several hundred Mbs and compressing them down to Kbs and then I can upload them.

I bring this to your attention because many of these are PDFs of emails and/or attachments to emails so they are going through your browser.

It seems to me that in the "old days" when storage space was scarce (possibly before any of you were born) documents being "distilled" into PDFs were also compressed to save space.  I assume that now people are just more profligate and don't worry about it much, but the differences are huge, Mbs vs. Kbs usually.  Is it possible that in your software you could at least have the option that when someone wants to convert an email into a PDF that we can choose to compress it or not?  This would be a big space saver.

Thanks for your help.

[Jon]

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