Thanks for the info, John! Here are the files in question:

OOo: http://www.9timezones.com/s/ooga.pdf
Word: http://www.9timezones.com/s/oogaf.pdf

This is what my untrained eye noticed: the OOo file has Fast Web View set to
No, and uses PDF Version 1.4 (Acrobat 5.x), rather than 1.2 (Acrobat 3.x). I
wonder if the problem could be solved by OOo using a simpler version of the
Acrobat routines and taking advantage of the Fast Web View function...

--- John Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Remember that the .odf file format is actually a zip-compressed archive 
> of XML data; that's why they can be so small. PDF files are more like 
> postscript data with lots of device-independent instructions tossed in. 
> Do note that the .pdf version is still smaller than the original .doc 
> version, though.
> 
> -- 
> 
> John ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> 
> On 2008-05-30, Alan C. Baird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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've played around with various Export settings, but the file size
> stubbornly
> > remains in the 46-48Kb range. Does anyone have suggestions on how to get it
> > down into the 17Kb neighborhood? More importantly, can we get an OOo honcho
> to
> > change the master settings in the Writer program, so it will export less
> > bloated PDFs?



      

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