Help - Content Stream and Fonts

[anyideas]

Hello All

I converted a word doc file to a pdf which was about 5mb before I started editing it. The pdf file is now down to 80kb but 32kb of that is used by fonts and 27kb by content streams according to the space audit report.

Does anyone have any ideas why these are so large and how I might get the size down?

I'm trying to make the file as small as possible as it will be merged with other files several times over.

Thanks for any help

Mark

 

[Guest_imported]

When you convert Doc to PDF (How? by distiller? PDFWriter?) - the used Windows fonts will be embedded into the PDF file - to make it possible to see the text on other OS/computers where the fonts are not installed.
Content Streams - cintains not only text itself but also its placement, relationship with graphic (clipping), etc. i.e. things, which Word do automatically. That's why it so large.

To reduce size of your files, use Distiller and try to play a bit with options. For example, disable embedding fonts, if you are sure all your computers have the fonts installed, etc

Serge

 

[anyideas]

Thanks Serge,

fairly new to this acrobat stuff,

Mark