I would suggest that it has something to do with the way that you are
creating the .pdf files. Where do the postscript files come into it. If I
use the Adobe PDF printer to create a .PDF file from a Word document, it is
invariably significantly smaller in size than the Word document - between
1/3 and 1/4 of the file size.

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"Justin Hess" wrote in message
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Hi There,

I've got a huge task of pdf'ing 13000 mail merge documents... however that
part of the process i've been able to automate. The problem is that the
pdf's
that are generated from the post script files are exceptionally large! The
problem appears to be because of the tables in the documents... Is there
any
way of making the word document tables more efficient? especially with the
use of dotted lines!
Thanks in advance!