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| Thread ID: 113901 | 2010-11-09 02:35:00 | PDF Add-On? | B.M. (505) | Press F1 |
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| 1151556 | 2010-11-09 07:34:00 | Snork - are you just having a bad day then? Do you need a hug? :p I had a hug, or better even this afternoon.:blush: |
Snorkbox (15764) | ||
| 1151557 | 2010-11-09 07:38:00 | So if you would explain your testing procedures I might give it a go. The original post was an add on to convert Word 2002 to PDF and several replies were given and all would work. Then you moaned about the file size produced by converting the Word doc to PDF. Did you retype the original in Open Office and then save as PDF? If so you can type faster than I've ever seen for a 11.1 meg doc. :) Well the testing format is quit simple. Take any “Word Document”, the bigger the better and convert it to pdf format using the programmes of you choice. I was under the impression that pdf format was smaller in size than doc format but in a couple of cases it seems not. I wasn’t moaning about anything, I was simply surprised that the document once converted to pdf would be bigger than the original. :confused: As far as the Open Office part of the experiment goes I simply opened the Word Document with Open Office and exported it to pdf. There certainly wasn’t any typing. :D |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1151558 | 2010-11-09 07:57:00 | I use PDFCreator. All the Word Docs I have used it on are reduced in size, some by a large amount. I don't have any of the size you have, but I just tried it on a 832KB file and result was 145KB. |
b.... (7683) | ||
| 1151559 | 2010-11-09 08:57:00 | To me it is not too surprising if a PDF ends up larger than the original file since (as I understand it), a PDF is an image of the page. | johnd (85) | ||
| 1151560 | 2010-11-09 09:24:00 | yea, nah PDFs are way over rated | SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 1151561 | 2010-11-09 09:31:00 | yea, nah PDFs are way over rated Not really - it is universal and portable! |
johnd (85) | ||
| 1151562 | 2010-11-09 10:01:00 | so is HTML... | SoniKalien (792) | ||
| 1151563 | 2010-11-09 10:20:00 | There are many setting that can be adjusted to produce a small file size of the pdf. | zqwerty (97) | ||
| 1151564 | 2010-11-09 17:01:00 | I use PDFCreator. All the Word Docs I have used it on are reduced in size, some by a large amount. I don't have any of the size you have, but I just tried it on a 832KB file and result was 145KB. Well, those are the results I was expecting so I downloaded PDF Creator and stone the crows it reduced the 11.1 meg Word file down to 2.97 meg’s with no noticeable deterioration in quality. :eek: Beats me, now we have a 11.1 meg document ranging anywhere between 18.6 meg and 2.97meg when saved as a PDF, with no noticeable change in quality. :confused: I must try them all on an XL Spreadsheet and see what happens there. In the meantime PDF Creator definitely looks like a keeper. :thumbs: Thanks b.... :thumbs: |
B.M. (505) | ||
| 1151565 | 2010-11-10 06:41:00 | Hi B . M . , what sort of things are in the Word file? The results you're getting are probably because the different PDF programs are treating the content differently . For example if you have images in there, the compression quality could make a huge difference . If there are images you could try compressing them first in Word, before you do the PDF: - right click on the picture - select Format Picture from the menu . - select the Picture tab - click the Compress button cheers W |
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