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Why does Word 2010 create such huge PDF files?
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Mar 15, 20269217 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I have noticed only now that my Word 2010 (docx) documents that are just a single page long and include a simple WMF vector graphic and a bit of text are almost 1 MB large. The Word document is only 50 kB and a PDF file created with Bullzip PDF printer is about the same size. So what is Microsoft w…
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This is still a problem with Word 2016. Perhaps not the same as the OP had, but it's still there: start with a 1 page 20 KB document, save as PDF, get a 300 KB PDF. I can't say why Word does this, but there is an easy way to minify these PDF files: …
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