Re: PDF file bloat

[JE McGimpsey]

In article <59b7f...@webcrossing.JaKIaxP2ac0>,
Kla...@officeformac.com wrote:

> Version: 2008
> Operating System: Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard)
> Processor: Intel
>
> When generating a PDF from Word, the filesize increases tenfold (from 3MB to
> 30MB). <br><br>The same Word document on my PC (after using the 'compress
> images' function available in Office 2007) generates a 100 KB PDF file.
> <br><br>How can I set the compression level on my MAC to get the same
> filesize as on my PC?

You'll need a 3rd party utility (or Adobe Acrobat). Word doesn't do the
PDF conversion - it's Mac OSX's PDF engine. There's no setting in Word
that affects that.

[A...@officeformac.com]

Dear Klaasje,
I have had the same your problem with Word 2008 until I discovered the real cause of it:
http://lunahelia.com/article/word-2008-for-mac-os-x-creates-huge-pdf-file-size

It's definitively Microsoft's BUG, while explanations about image compression and similar stuff that you can find here, posted by the administrators of this forum, are completely BULLSHITS.

The bug is generated when you switch on OpenType ligatures in your document. Try to disable them, and you will obtain far smaller PDFs.

Best wishes,
Artemio Keidan