Hi Al Another thing to try...
Check you haven't got 'tagging' turned on in your Acrobat settings. Unless you need it for accessibility reasons, turn it off as it will cause a PDF to take forever to create and can bloat it out. Rhonda Rhonda Bracey [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cybertext.com.au AuthorIT Certified Consultant -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Al Geist Sent: Friday, 9 February 2007 8:01 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [TCP] Acrobat bloat problem 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
