This is probably more of a workaround than a cure, but have you tried saving the file with a new name after it's created? That forces Acrobat to optimize the file and consolidate the graphics, as I recall (it's early here).
Both versions of Acrobat have been updated to the same point version right? What's in the file that makes it so large? I know that graphics tend to dramatically increase the size of PDF files, but if you've checked the profiles on both machines, then I'm out of ideas as to that. Tarage On Feb 9, 2007, at 6:48 AM, Al Geist wrote: > I'm having a Word/Acrobat bloat problem. All of a sudden, the PDFs > created > out of Word with the Adobe PDF writer have bloated. The Word source > file is > around 40M. I use smallest file size for the PDF setting. The PDFs > used to > be around 8M, but have since bloated up to 31M. I use the same file > on my > laptop and the PDF file is only 8-9M. Both the laptop and the desktop > have > Office 2003 and Acrobat 6 Standard. The laptop uses XP Home and the > Desktop > uses XP Professional. I reloaded Office on the desktop to no avail. > My > next inclination is to remove Acrobat and all it's updates, clean the > registry and reload everything. > > Anybody got any other ideas..... It also takes up to two hours to > create a > PDF from a large Word file...seems entirely too long. Have I also > told you > how much I "love" Word.... > > Al > > ______________________________________________ Author Help files and create printed documentation with Doc-To-Help. New release adds Team Authoring Support, enhanced Web-based help technology and PDF output. Learn more at www.doctohelp.com/tcp. DITA West 2007--Use a discount code of "TECHCOMMPROS" to get a discount rate of $200 off the $900 registration price. http://www.travelthepath.com/conf/dita2007.shtml _______________________________________________ Technical Communication Professionals Post a message to the list: email [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, unsubscribe, archives, account options, list info: http://techcommpros.com/mailman/listinfo/tcp_techcommpros.com Subscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe (email): send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Need help? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Get the TCP whole experience! http://www.techcommpros.com
