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Re: Acrobat 5.0 Creating Large PDF File Sizes

Subject: Re: Acrobat 5.0 Creating Large PDF File Sizes
From: Shlomo Perets <mtype -at- netvision -dot- net -dot- il>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 11:43:50 +0200


Michelle,

You wrote:

I upgraded from Acrobat 4.05 to Acrobat 5.0 this week, and I've noticed that
my new PDFs have larger file sizes than the ones I created using Acrobat
4.05. For example, I have a Word document that is 72 K. If I use the
PDFMaker button from Word and use Distiller 5.0's default settings for a
screen-optimized file, the resulting PDF is 472 K. When I created a PDF from
the same Word file with Acrobat 4.05, the PDF was 64 K. The file does not
contain any graphics; it only has text. As far as I can tell, I am using the
same settings that I was using with Acrobat 4.05. I am using Word 97 on a
Windows 2000 system? Does anyone have any idea why the file size may have
increased so much? Is there a particular setting I should look at? ...

In the PDFMaker settings, Office tab, check whether "Embed structure in PDF" (last item) is turned ON. PDF Structure (Word97) or Tagged PDF Info (Word 2000) can add quite a lot to the PDF file size, in many cases without justification. The Acrobat 5 Help file itself is larger that it should have been because of this (among other factors).

When checking why a certain PDF is larger than expected, a new Acrobat 5 function may be helpful: Tools > PDF Consultant > Audit Space Usage.

See my suggestions on trimming the PDF fat in PlanetPDF (first item in the Best Practices series), a link is also available in my home page.


Shlomo Perets

MicroType * http://www.microtype.com
SP Bookmark Controller / Advanced Acrobat Training / Solutions



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