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Converting a word doc to pdf

Submitted by Albert on Thu, 09/09/2010 - 12:03

I recently got a 2Mb word document I had to convert to PDF to put online. For some reason, on Mac OS X:

  • OpenOffice (through the print... dialog) generated a 64Mb document
  • Acrobat (through extreme space saving meaures) generated a 24Mb document
  • OpenOffice (through export... > Adobe PDF > smallest file size) generated a whopping 160Mb document
  • Google Docs couldn't read by word doc at all (it displayed the html version)

I discovered the excellent free service at www.doc2pdf.net, which produced a 7 Mb PDF... for free!
Of course, I'm not clear on why PDF needs 7Mb to store what word can store in two..., but still, doc2pdf saved the day for me.

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