Image quality and report size

Hello,
I have a problem in the export to PDF document. I use CR 10.2 with Visual Studio 2005 in a web application.
My problem is that I have a report of photographies, in wich I need an aceptable image quality. I don´t show the report in an report viewer, I create the report document and export it to PDF sending the memorystram in the http reponse.
Firstly I see that the PDF document image quality was so bad. Then I checked the report property "Retain original color depth", and the image quality was good, but the PDF size was too big, two photographies of about 2MB(each one) generates a PDF file of about 20MB size.
I need to send the pdf files to the clients via email, but the files are so big, and if the cllient inserts 10 photographies, the report size would be of about 100MB. Is there any wallkaround to this issue?. Is there this issue fixed in crystal reports XI?
Best regards

See [this|Crystal to PDF; thread. As unsatisfactory as the answer may be, it is what it is...
I believe R&D is looking at this issue, but as an enhancement for a future release of CR.
Ludek

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