Reducing the size of a fillable PDF

Question

I have created a pdf contract which is just under 600KB. I have then made it a fillable PDF and upon saving have noticed, it is now 10x the size, and is 5895KB.

I have already tried:

To save it as a reduced size file - it only goes down to 5739KB.

To save it as an optimised PDF - Under standard setting, and have removed all embedded fonts - It only goes down to 5738KB

Under the audit space usage it says that 97.97% of the Bytes is being used by fonts.

The difference between the original file and the fillable file, is there are 8 small fillable boxes.

Am I able to make the document any smaller?

try67 · Accepted Answer

If I change the fonts to a standard, will the file size become smaller?

Maybe... You can try the "Remove hidden information" command and it might get rid of it.

If not, go to an earlier version of the file and re-add the fields, this one with the correct font.

try67 · Answer

I'm guessing this is due to fonts. Did you set the fields to use any non-standard fonts (ie, those that appear at the top of the fonts list)?

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