Mike Feimster wrote: > I did some testing once and created two documents, where the only > difference was one doc had an 8-bit png inported by reference and the > other had a 16-bit png imported by reference. When I generated PDFs, the > PDF with the 8-bit png was actually bigger.
I seem to recall that one or two versions of Acrobat had a specific problem with 8-bit PNGs that resulted in unnecessarily large PDF file sizes, so that might have been a contributing factor in your test since you don't mention the version you were using at the time. -FR
