SWX 2007 - Save As PDF

Oct 26, 2006 4 Replies

Just using 2007 for the first time on a live project - anyone noticed that saving as a PDF using the built in tool gives a unusually large file size compared to using a 3rd party distiller - even with all the boxes un-checked in the options.



Example: Assy saved as PDF = 800Kb - Assy "printed" as PDF using PDF995 = 173Kb



I seem to remember in previous versions that the internlly created PDF was always a smaller file size than those created by a 3rd party application.



Is this peculiar to my systems (I've tried it on 2 different installations) or is it something that is a consequence of the change from Bluebeam, or is it 2007 or have I missed something?


Kev



It has options now, and one I believe is high quality which is selected by default....?

alphawave wrote:

Yes, I can confirm this. Saved a couple of files as PDF and also printed them to PDF using Acrobat. File 1 - 490Kb (Save As), 113Kb (print) File 2 - 400Kb (Save As), 93Kb (print) About a 4:1 increase. Both the Save As files were with high quality switched off.

Pete

Thanks Pete,

I'm glad I'm not going nuts!

Anyone know why it is so?

Kev

Pete wrote:

is it saving the 3dPDF info with it? I don't know but a theory.

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