Word 2004 PDFs are twice the size of Word X's

[thvv]

I created a PDF from a 16 page Word document, mostly text.
This PDF is 235K.
My wife's machine has Mac Office X,
and the same input file
and print-to-PDF gives a 144K output file.

I have tried the ColorSync Quartz Filter Reduce File Size
and it saves about 5K. Tried Acrobat 6.0.2 PDF optimizer
and the file got a little bigger.

Fonts are not the issue: both files have the same fonts embedded.
The "content streams" on the Word 2004 file are
twice the size of those produced by Word X
according to Acrobat's PDF optimizer.
How can I make the PDF small like it used to be?

 

[Corentin Cras-Méneur]

Fonts are not the issue: both files have the same fonts embedded.
The "content streams" on the Word 2004 file are
twice the size of those produced by Word X
according to Acrobat's PDF optimizer.
How can I make the PDF small like it used to be?

You can still use the optimizer to remove content stream from the document.
Anyway, I have no idea why your PDFs are so much larger :-\

Corentin

 

[Fredrik Wahlgren]

You can still use the optimizer to remove content stream from the document.
Anyway, I have no idea why your PDFs are so much larger :-\

Corentin


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I think pdf files come in different versions. There should be an easy way to
check the version of each file. My guess is that either Word word will store
images in different formats or generate different pdf versions.

/ Fredrik

 

[Rob]

I created a PDF from a 16 page Word document, mostly text.
This PDF is 235K.
My wife's machine has Mac Office X,
and the same input file
and print-to-PDF gives a 144K output file.

I have tried the ColorSync Quartz Filter Reduce File Size
and it saves about 5K. Tried Acrobat 6.0.2 PDF optimizer
and the file got a little bigger.

Fonts are not the issue: both files have the same fonts embedded.
The "content streams" on the Word 2004 file are
twice the size of those produced by Word X
according to Acrobat's PDF optimizer.
How can I make the PDF small like it used to be?

"Print to PDF"? Do you use Acrobat or the built-in (OS X) PDF maker?

When selecting Adobe PDF Printer, open the third box from the top
(starting as "Copies and Pages") and click "PDF Options". Compare Adobe
PDF Settings on both computers. I assume you use the same Acrobat
version on both computers ...

Rob