Illustartor is writing HUGE pdf file sizes

[jimmy.wentz@gmail.com]

I have a custom preset PDF modes that I've been using for months. Suddenly it's saving what normally is a 1mb file at 30mb file? How is that possible? It's not compressing and PDFs?

[Monika Gause]

What's in the file?

Which other options do you set up?

[Kurt Gold]

Which version of Illustrator are you using?

About what kind of files are you talking?

Are you always doing a "Save as" or "Save as Copy" or just a "Save"?

Are there perhaps any other informations worth to be mentioned in order to catch the culprit?

Sometimes (or rather often) it is pretty useful to share a sample .ai file, so one can take a closer look at it.

[jimmy.wentz@gmail.com · Accepted solution]

Thanks for the quick response. I did a work around. There was an imported file that was over 30mb. I brought it into Photoshop, made TIFF and reimported. Problem solved.

Thanks for the quick response.