I believe there's an option somewhere to improve the portability of PDFs
by including the fonts that are used as objects within the file.  I've
always understood this to be turned off by default, but maybe it's enabled
on your machine?

Dave Gillett


On 17 Oct 2004 at 16:39, Peter Shkabara wrote:

> 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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