EPS size minimum problem

[orient96]

Hello,
I would like to know, if there is any solution for my problem. I will appreciate any help.
I draw very simple black and white cartoon images made in Photoshop and auto vectorized in Inkscape. This images are sold on microstock websites. But one of  agencies automatically rejects EPS files under 50KB. Many of my EPS are about 15 KB, so there is missing a lot.  I already contacted the support, they send it to technical department and nothing happened. I guess they will not change the system because of me.

So my question is, if there is any easy way how to make EPS file created in Inkscape larger without changing the style, just to add there some "useless waste"? It cannot be any hidden object or anything outside the borders, no gradient or something.

Thanks in advance for any reaction.

[Moini]

Maybe add nodes? That's the only thing I know that will reliably carry over to the eps file format. But you would need a lot of those, to make it 35 kb...
Or you could duplicate the object a couple of times. As it's opaque, that probably won't change the appearance...

That's quite a silly requirement they have, tbh....

[brynn]

Yes, who ever heard of not allowing small files.  It seems more logical to prefer small files and reject large ones.  For goodness sakes, it costs them nothing to host a 15 kb file!

I'm not familiar with selling artwork or microstock websites, but it seems to me like smaller files would be preferred.  Can you give us a link to one of your images on that site?  I'm curious to read such an odd rule.

Or maybe it would be better to just avoid that site?  Often the first clue that a site is malicioius or nefarious is stupid things like bad spelling and bad grammar.  Maybe bad rules are another clue?

When you save as EPS, are hidden layers included in the file size?  If so, you could put a bunch of junk on a hidden layer.  Or embed a raster image on a hidden layer.