On 05/30/2008 05:59 PM, Brian Barker wrote: > At 15:16 30/05/2008 -0700, Alan C. Baird wrote: >>I created a screenplay template for MSWord 2002 and wrote a short >>10-page script - the .doc file was 56Kb. >> >>Then I created a screenplay template for OpenOffice.org Writer 2.4 >>and pasted the same text into it - the resulting .odt file was 17Kb. Great! >> >>Afterwards, I created a PDF of the .doc file at >>http://createpdf.adobe.com - using Adobe's default settings, the >>.doc-PDF file was 17Kb. Finally, I created a PDF of the .odt file >>with OOo Writer 2.4 - using the default Export settings, that >>.odt-PDF file was 48Kb. Oof. > > I'm not an expert in these matters, but here is an idea. > > Word processor files generally do not include a definition of the > fonts they use. PDF files do. Unless you asked Microsoft Word to > embed the fonts, your .doc file would simply have named the fonts it > needed at different points; likewise, Writer's .odt file would not > contain any font definitions. When these document files are opened > on remote systems, the fonts used for displaying or printing them are > similarly named fonts present on that system, or appropriate fonts > determined by its font substitution table. > > When you made PDF versions of these documents, (subsets of) > appropriate fonts would have been included in them. But the fonts > included in your first example would presumably have been provided by > the Adobe web site, whereas the fonts included in the second example > would have been imported by Writer from your own system. These would > in general be different fonts (albeit with the same names) and could > even be different types of font - perhaps of very different > sizes. Are the .doc and .odt documents otherwise identical, in > fact? Is it possible that you have a rogue character in another font > in your Writer version, requiring the PDF to contain another > font? (Remember that character attributes such as bold and italic > are actually indicators of alternative fonts.) > > If you open your PDFs in Adobe Reader and go to File | Properties... > | Fonts, you can see what is embedded in each. >
Nah, I think that Alan has a valid point. To test I switched to Windows and using a 644KB OOo document I saved to PDF using the following: 1. OOo. Size = 994.1KB using OOo 3.0 Beta using PDF/A1 2. OOo. Size = 997KB using OOo 3.0 Beta (these are M14's) standard, no bookmarks. 3. OOo. Size = 435.2KB using OOo 2.4.0 (note that this is smaller than the original .ott of 644KB 4. Print to Adobe Acrobat 6.0 Professional = 85.6KB 5. Print to PDFCreator = 109KB o The PDFCreator pdf shows Helvetica and Times Roman fonts. o The OOo 2.4.0 shows Helvetica, ZapFdingbats, ArialMT ArialBoldMT, ArialItalicMT, TimesNewRomanPSMT o The OOo 3.0 Beta shows the same fonts as the 2.4.0 o Adobe Acrobat shows the same as the OOo 2.4.0. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
