Some settings are still wrong. My guess is that picture
image compression or PDF file resolution it too high.
I can't be more specific - I use Acrobat 6 where is
only one virtual printer.

Toomas


----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Shkabara" <[log in to unmask]>


>I have Adobe Acrobat 5 and occasionally create PDF files. For some reason,
> the resulting PDF files are much larger than they should be. For example, an
> MS Word document that is 133KB becomes over 1MB. By tweaking the settings in
> Acrobat Distiller, I managed to "shrink" the PDF to "only" 552KB. Still
> seems too large.
>
> A second part to this question is that Adobe seems to have two printer
> drivers that it installs (optionally). One is the Distiller, and the other
> is the PDF-Writer. I found that Distiller seems to have more options, but
> Writer works faster. Any explanations or comments on this are welcome.
>
> Am I doing something wrong in my PDF creation? I already removed and
> re-installed Acrobat with no change in results.
>
> Thank you for any insights or suggestions.
>
> Peter
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