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Old January 7th, 2009, 11:27 PM posted to microsoft.public.word.docmanagement
Herb Tyson [MVP]
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Default Word to PDF size increases!?

This is not uncommon. PDF files use formatting commands that are ultimately
plain text--not different in concept from HTML or RTF formatting commands.
PDF files take up a lot of space, with the end result being that PDF files
can be many times larger than the formats used by word processing programs.
This is an inherent cost of using PDF. The benefit, of course, is
printer-ready multi-platform documents that display exactly the same way to
everyone who sees them. The same cannot be said for Word's native document
format.

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"VistaPublish" wrote in message
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When I convert from Word to PDF the document size increases 5x. How do I
prevent this?