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3.5mb Word Doc >> Export >> 27mb PDF!!
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Hi,
I am having trouble exporting Word documents to e-mail able .pdf's.
I am using Word 2008, and through both the print and save as dialogue boxes I am getting massive file size outputs.
I have re-opened in Preview, and then reduced file size with the Quartz filter option, and it comes down to around 400K, but the quality is shocking.
Does anyone know how I can get some kind of middle ground in quality?
Any ideas appreciated.
Thanks!
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Thanks for your suggestion - I'll have to check out that software.
It's a shame we don't have more control over this in Preview, as the functionality is surely built into OS X already.
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That's why I use adobe acrobat.
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Adobe Acrobat costs money though....
Unless this can be done in Reader?
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I would suggest testing Neo Office as I have read that the new MS Office has a problem and does create overly large pdf files. sam
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Either you have a bunch of pictures in your document (or Word-based drawings), or you have a number of odd fonts (that have to be included in the PDF) or some combination of the two. Am I right? With most PDF creators they save the text and a reference to the font used (plus data on formatting, etc.), so they turn out Word-documents that aren't terribly big. I have had documents become smaller after I ran them through Acrobat. But there's something really different going on if you get a file that's EIGHT TIMES as large as the original document.
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I am experiencing the same problem, I guess.
I have done a test, exporting the same file out of Word 2008 and out of Word 2004.
The Word document file size is 280k (.doc-Format). The doc does not contain any images.
Exported to PDF from Word 2008 the PDF file size is 38MB compared to a PDF file size of 380k when exported from Word 2004.
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Last edited by gogi; Mar 20, 2008 at 01:28 PM.
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Continuing my test described in the above post, I copied the contents and all styles from my old file to a new .docx-file. With that new file created by Word 2008 (size only 88k!) I did not encounter any problems concerning the PDF export. PDF file size was 324k. The problem seems to occur only with files originally created by Word 2004.
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