Reducing PDF file size in Open Office?

Question

I opened a 92-page, 462K Word 2000 document into Open Office 2.3.1, and now I'm trying to save it as a PDF document.

No matter what I do, that PDF document is 11,822 K. That's enormous.

I've tried adjusting the JPEG compression and the image resolution, but the
resulting PDF file size remains 11,822 K.

For purposes of comparison, I created a PDF of the same file with doPDF, and
it gave me only 1,274 K. I would keep that doPDF file, but I want to use the
security settings that are available in Open Office.

What should I do in order to reduce the PDF file size?

Answer 1

I'm using the original Acrobat distiller, and it has several presets as to quality. Highest quality is "print" mode, with over a thousand dots per inch, which is the preset that's suitable for printing machines. But you can lower the resolution to as low as "web" mode, which is perfectly fine for on-screen display. I suppose you can adjust this in Open Office, too, but can't tell you where. I'm using MS Word and Star Office (Corel Office), and there it's in the printer settings.



But generally, PDFs get larger than the original text document, as the fonts are included within the PDF. Your word processor will not include them into the text file, as it's not necessary. The fonts are available on the machine the word processor is running on anyway. You can disable "embedded fonts" when creating a PDF, but I wouldn't recommend it. It would make PDF, which, by its name, is supposed to be a "portable document format", practically worthless.

Answer 2

If you have the Microsoft Word software then you could try the Adobe PDF link to convert it and see if that helps. There should be security settings there in the File menu.

Answer 3

Hey,

The program that you have to use to read pdf is Adobe Reader.

get Adobe Reader for free here http://bit.ly/1sxS60Z

Hope it helps.