I had created a new document before you sent that last reply and it worked. But it makes no sense. This software is kind of clunky. It behaves like an open source. So I went on a mission to determine how the files get so heavy, even with minimal fonts. I only had two fonts embeded and the file size was 25 MB. This is the part that didn't make sense. How is this possible? Starting all over may have fixed the problem, but didn't explain why it was a problem, thus could happen again. So after recreating the document, the file size was nice and light.... 300 kb or so. So I started styling my form again, trying different fonts and such. And of course the file size began in increase again. Up to 1 M... then 1.7 M So in an effort to figure out why such dramatic increases, I started stripping fonts by editing fields and changing the fonts to arial. It did not effect the file size at all. The file remained 1.7M. So it seems like the more you mess with it, the more data it retains....SOMEWHERE. So every time I change a font, it adds to the file size. I just changed all of the fonts to Courrier. The first one on the list. Now the file size is 1.9 M. Interesting.... courrier is not in the list of embedded fonts. 1) The more I play with the form, the bigger it gets, no matter what I delete or change. 2) What is the difference between save and save as, if you are editing in the native file??? 3) When flattening fields and comments, shouldn't it reduce the file size? 4) Is there a function to convert text to outlines, that way we are not dealing with fonts at all? This is adobe software right? 5) Where can we edit or view the fonts contained in a native document, besides file, save as, optimized PDF? 6) Is there a place where the document collects data that can be deleted? I sorry, but I'm really having a hard time with understanding why this software is doing what it doing. Why does the file size keep growing and growing.
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