I created Application by Using SDK to convert Word document to PDF. It works fine but after conversation PDF file's size increases so much. Word document with 15-20KB becomes 1MB PDF file after conversation. How can I optimize the PDF file's size?

[zohar_peretz]

I created Application by Using SDK to convert Word document to PDF.

It works fine but after conversation PDF file's size increases so much.

15-20 KB Word document becomes 1 MB PDF file after conversation.

How can I optimize the PDF file's size?

[lrosenth]

I suspect that is because you are embedding fonts, and that particular document uses a LOT of fonts…but I can only guess…

How are you converting the Word file using the SDK? What settings for conversion are you using?

[zohar_peretz]

No it does not contains any special fonts, only has Arial.

But I found that size increases after adding Watermark to the converted PDF. Watermark is only a text(no image).

This is the code snippet

Please let me know how to optimize PDF after adding watermark.

[lrosenth]

AH!!!

But your watermark will cause a font embedding – and potentially a full embed (hence the size increase)

[lrosenth]

Don’t use Arial – use Helvetica.

[zohar_peretz]

I had used Helvetica earlier but the result was the same.

From the another post I found to use saveAs instead of Save but that is also not working.

[Test Screen Name]

Use Audit Space Usage in Save As Optimized PDF to analyse what the file is full of.

[zohar_peretz]

"Use Audit Space Usage in Save As Optimized PDF to analyse what the file is full of."

Can you please give more information on it or some code snippet?

[Test Screen Name]

This is not an API  Just look under Save As and explore.

[zohar_peretz · Accepted solution]

I found the way, actually need to pass another param "cConvID".

Just of the complete conclusion,

Try not to use external (embedded) fonts.

And Instead of saving do "saveAs" with passing param "cConvID".

[lrosenth]

Yes, that will help!

[zohar_peretz]

Thank you everyone for you help. I am just marking my concluded answer as Correct Answer to keep the complete information.