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I have a puzzling issue that I just cannot find the root cause of. I have been using Bullzip to make pdf's of my illustrator files. Perhaps its my own ignorance but somehow Bullzip printer can make the file much lighter then saving the file as pdf within the adobe program??? But thats not my question, for some reason some of the files end up being MUCH heavier than others...

Take these too examples:
http://www.camp5.com/pdfs/ppc_handout.pdf (70kb)
http://www.camp5.com/pdfs/yoga_handout.pdf (800kb)

Both files are pretty much the same, but for some reason I cannot find any way to make the second file anywhere nears the same size as the first. EVEN if i take out ALL the pictures and only leave text the file is still heavier ??? This just does not seem logical. I have matched the printer properties in Bullzip in both case.

Another puzzling issue is even though I set Bullzip to print 'landscape' the file always ends up portrait. This wasnt an issue in earlier version of Bullzip, only when i upgraded to the latest version.

Incidently Im running Windows XP

I looked at your two pdfs, and while their layout is the same there are some differences which may be causing the different file sizes. The Yoga pdf actually has more images in it than the ppc pdf. The ppc pdf has a single image of the person hanging from their climbing harness, while the yoga pdf has the picture of the people doing yoga, plus four images at the bottom of that side of the pdf.

I suggest that you check to see how big the original image files are. Especially the four smaller ones. If they were originally larger, but were then shrunk to the display size, they may still be their original file size despite the display size. If you have 5 images that are 150 kb each, then that's 750 k right there. If that's what's going on, then you could shrink the smaller images down to the sizes that you intend to display them at before you place them into your Illustrator file and save yourself 100's of kb in the finished pdf.

Hopefully this helps you.