I have a G5 running 10.4.11 and 10.5.8 on partiitions. When I converted several postscript files into pdfs and combined them w/ 4.11 (and earlier -- it's an ongoing project), I always got a roughly 498 page file of about 13 MB.
Apparently mistaken, I thought 5.8 would run faster. (But I didn't notice that ran slower, either.) Anyway, I got an interesting result (using the same Acrobat 8 application that resides on one of the partitions); the file is 5 MB. I re-did another project of essentially the same size that had already been completed using 4.11 and got the same result. As far as I can *see*, the two .pdfs are exactly the same except that one takes up less than 40% as much disk space. This may have something to do with whether the font is embedded (Times New Roman) in one file but not the other,. If so, it's not because I altered the system font files. They are exactly the same as when the systems were installed. An explanation would be nice, but, that aside, this is a notable difference between OSX4 and OSX5 (if others can duplicate it). Tom Field
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