PDF export via action results in huge file size

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July 8, 2023
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Hi!
I created some export actions to quickly save artboards to pdf. The action just exists of the »Save copy as...« command which saves a pdf file as PDF/X-3:2002 to my disk and a Dialog with the message »Exported«.

When I export an artboard in exactly this way, I get file sizes in the single digits.
However, when I run the action my pdf is around 400mb big with just that one artboard...

I don't get why that is. Does anybody know why they are suddenly huge in size?
How do I get smaller sizes when exporting with actions?

Thank you in advance

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Ares Hovhannesyan

Community Expert

May be it includes Illustrator Code as in usually Save as PDF action?

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Illustrator remembers the last used PDF settings. Maybe that includes the Illustrator edting capabilities?

Lenz GunzenAuthor

Participant

Thanks for the suggestion, but thats not it... PDF/X-3 doesn't even support saving editing capabilities. Despite that I exported with the exact same settings, once just manually and once the recorded action

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

Yes, I see that the action remembers the settings in 27.7

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