[Giovani Akira]

Hi people!

I have few Windows Word DOCS and I need to convert
them to Adobe PDF. But I can not find anywhere on my
Mac some kind of configuration/options to customize
the output compressio/etc of the PDF files!

My Word .doc's are small like 36Kb with 4 pages, no images inside. After saving as PDF they became 118Kb!

Somebody can help me with this issue?

Akira.

[engaged]

Go 'File', 'Print', and you should have an option to 'Save as PDF'.

[philm]

Using the print dialog's Save as PDF function, you have no control on a range of PDF parameters. You need Acrobat to do this.
Phil

[-Q-]

Originally posted by Giovani Akira:
Hi people!

I have few Windows Word DOCS and I need to convert
them to Adobe PDF. But I can not find anywhere on my
Mac some kind of configuration/options to customize
the output compressio/etc of the PDF files!

My Word .doc's are small like 36Kb with 4 pages, no images inside. After saving as PDF they became 118Kb!

Somebody can help me with this issue?

Akira.

Unfortunately, OS X's ability to print to PDF is pretty unoptimized. You'd need Adobe Acrobat (full version) to get some good compression capabilities.

There's some shareware apps out there that might give you what you need:

PDFCompress
PDFShrink Lite

And this might do what you're looking for: Strangelove.

Looks like strangelove might require Ghostscript tho'.