A very small PDF file becomse huge after saving

[acichy]

A small PDF text-only file (14 K) becomes 10 times bigger after adding highlight of a single line of text and hand-written text.

Any suggestion how to avoid it?

A. Cichy
International American School
Warsaw, Poland

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

Don't type any text.

The highlighting barely makes any difference, but if you type some text then the font is embedded in the PDF.

I tried with a 25K file, it jumped to 194K with a few words of text.

25.4 KB (26010 bytes) original
26.4 KB (27106 bytes) one hilighted line
110 KB (113243 bytes) one word in Verdana Regular.

I think there may be some room for improvement here, as I find if I look in document properties that more than one font is embedded.

[acichy]

The problem is that I do not enter ANY TEXT AT ALL. It's just a small text file and I would like to highlight something, circle something else. I had the same problem with Foxit PDF editor: huge resulting files. It should be a tool for selecting what fonts to add, maybe only existing one

A. Cichy

[Bhikkhu Pesala]

All I can say is, "That is not my experience if I just highlight some text." If I add a callout with some text, or just plain text it is a different story. However, if I use a different font, I can reduce the file size substantially.

With one word in Accent SF (a Serif™ font) instead of Verdana:

54.8 KB (56167 bytes)

and with one sentence:

55.1 KB (56460 bytes)

No doubt it would be better if fonts were subsetted, but IMO that is a bit much to expect from a free PDF reader. Adobe Acrobat it is not.

[Ivan - Tracker Software]

Can you send original and saved files?

[acichy]

Don't flame me :(. So far I cannot repeat what I got before, and definitely I had the described problem. So far, sorry for troubling you. I was surprised at what I got because I couldn't find any complaints on the forum.

Regards

A. Cichy