Bought new laptop with Windows 10 and new Acrobat DC. Files are much larger now.

[Tobias5E68]

Hello everyone,

I've got an old laptop with Windows 7 and Adobe Acrobat 2015 and PDFMaker word plugin, which came with the acrobat installer. I've purchased a new laptop, Windows 10 with newest Acrobat DC, and if I convert with files with PDFMaker to .PDF files, the files are much larger then previous installations. It was always around 140KB and now its about 380KB. For 1 file, its not a big problem, but I need to make 10.000 files like that and upload them to a very limited resource.

Is there a way to auto compress files while making? Or is there a feature of key that I can use tot always compress EVERY file I make with Acrobat? I can only make a file around 380kb and then compress THAT PDF file to 140kb. If I have to do that work-around with 10.000 files, it will be a big frustration.

In short: Is there a way to auto compress every file while making? or change something in Acrobat so that the compress option is ALWAYS on.

Kind regards,

Tobias

[Bernd Alheit]

What conversion settings does you use?

[Tobias5E68]

@Bernd Alheit I can't set any conversion settings. I just click on the PDFMaker icon and it happens.

[try67]

Next to the Create PDF icon in that ribbon there's another one called Preferences. There you can decide what settings to use when converting the file to a PDF. This selection will have a big effect on the file size, among other things.

[Tobias5E68]

@try67 those settings are for that specific file, but I want to change the settings in order to have every file from that moment in compressed size. Is that possible?

[Bernd Alheit]

This is not specific for a file.

https://helpx.adobe.com/acrobat/using/creating-pdfs-pdfmaker-windows.html#view_pdfmaker_conversion_s... 

[try67]

These are the general settings that are used whenever you use the PDFMaker plugin.