We are using .NET and a 3rd party tool (Spire.doc) to render mail merge documents, but they tend to be rather big, like 50-200 MB (keeping the data source and the template separate would do the job, but producing rendered versions with hundreds of pages to download in a single doc is the customer request).
Is there a (.NET accessible) library that minimizes the size of a Word document not by using a compression algorithm on the file (zip, rar,..), but by analysing the document structure and then optimizing it internally and thus making it smaller? So that the result is a valid Word doc(x) (and not an archive or a RTF document).
Optimizing embedded images doesn’t help too much because there aren’t any.
After doing lots of research, the only tool we found was a commercial one: http://www.balesio.com/fileminimizersdk/eng/index.php. They don’t even have prices on their website, nor demo versions, so I can’t say anything about it.