Edited PDF File Size

[Lauren]

Wouldn't this be a caching issue?  MS Access is prone to growing larger than
it is, so there is a function to compact the database down to a reasonable
size.  I don't know if Frame or whatever you are using does this, but
closing and re-opening the document after a major deletion and save could
restore the doc to the correct size.  Also, aren't PDFs compressed documents
anyway?  Granted, I may have a bit of naïveté when it comes to dealing with
PDFs, but I think that compression and caching may be factors here.

Lauren
 

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> [mailto:techwr-l-bounces+lt34=csus.edu at lists.techwr-l.com] On 
> Behalf Of Keith Hansen
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 1:38 PM
> To: Techwr-l
> Subject: Edited PDF File Size
> 
> 
> Interesting situation today... I took a very large PDF file (20MB). I
> deleted all but two pages from the PDF and saved it. Yet, 
> even though it
> now contains only two pages, the file size is still shown as 20MB!
> 
> I then opened the PDF and saved it under a different name. It is now
> only 140KB.
> 
> Why did the edited PDF retain the huge file size, even though it only
> contained two pages? Why did the "Save As" bring about the file-size
> reduction?
> 
> Just curious...
> 
> Keith
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