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Subject:Help for PDF File Size Problem From:"Sunder, Vidya (CCA)" <V -dot- Sunder -at- compaq -dot- com> To:TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 13 Apr 2000 17:21:56 -0500
Hi,
I have 4 Word files (chapters of a Reference Guide) that I need to convert
to a single PDF.
I created a single PDF using the Runfilex.ps file that comes with Acrobat.
The problem is that the PDF file is very large (> 7 MB). Anything more than
2 MB is not acceptable because users will be downloading the PDF file from
the Web.
To check whether there was some problem with my source files, I created a
PDF from each of the 4 files. The resulting PDFs were quite small (from 28KB
to 170 KB).
I tried changing some Distiller options (optimizing, compression). This also
did not make any difference.
I cannot combine the Word files because a different template is attached to
each file.
