Printing to PDF

[Ghoto]

When I print to PDF in Office X apps, the files get huge, three to five
times larger. Anybody know what's happening.
Thanks!!

 

[Tim Murray]

Please let us know the method you use.

 

[Ghoto]

When in my document, I go to FILE>PRINT. Then I select SAVE AS PDF
and save the file to PDF format. As an example, one Word file went
from 6.2 MB (lots of imbedded photos) to over 25 MB. Smaller, all text
documents will about double from, for example 250 Kb to 600 Kb-1
MB.
Thanks for your help.

 

[Jim Gordon MVP]

Hi

The "save as PDF" feature that comes with print dialog boxes in OSX saves a
high quality PDF file, so the size is not small.

If you would like to control the quality (and consequently the size) of PDF
files you will need to use Adobe Acrobat or another utility.
http://www.versiontracker.com/ may have some low cost shareware utilities
that can save files as PDF.

Here's a sample search from Versiontracker:
<http://www.versiontracker.com/php/search.php?PHPSESSID=50adae2f4a019ebd0a08
8b7681634b13&mode=basic&action=search&str=PDF&plt%5B%5D=macosx&x=22&y=3&jump
toCat=0>

-Jim Gordon
Mac MVP

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[Ghoto]

Thanks very much. I suspected as much, but didn't want to believe it.