[plug] pdf size

[Leon Blackwell]

On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:31:13PM +0800, skribe wrote:
> Just while we're discussing ps2pdf, I've just converted a 400k word doc (70k 
> OOo doc) using OOo and the pdf is in excess of 6M.  That sounds a little big 
> for just formatted text IMHO. Is that about right?

If the word document contains Word-style line graphics or strange fonts,
it may output them as bitmaps, which would definitely take up a lot of
space.  It might also try embedding the fonts, which can be quite large.

You might also like to make sure that the output pdf is compressed.


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