Lots of reasons. Never converted from open office but have used Ms office to do a "brute force" conversion into PDF and my reply is based on my experiences of BF conversion:
1. The software ably translate the document into Postscrip language. However postscript is optimised for printing and not for viewing and as such carry lot of other control information which is encapsulated into the created PDF document.
2. Font substitution takes place in a limited way when converting from postcript -> ghostcript -> pdf. However most of the fonts used in MS office environment are TTF (which are essentially bitmaps) and as such increase the size of the file.
I have found that using fonts in MS documents which are close to T1 the file sizes reduce considerably especially Times New Roman 12 point
RVK
Tathagata Banerjee wrote:
On Mon, 2003-02-17 at 22:38, Sayamindu Dasgupta wrote:Yep - but i dunno if you have noticed - the PDFs generated by OOo are HUUUGEEE. I tried to generate a PDF with OOo and it came to 4 megs. Then I tried adobe.com - it became 176 kb :-S any ideas why this happens ??OOo developers have a different take on the idea of "robustness"? :-) - t.
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