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Do you have backgrounds in the slides? Each slide with the same background
will be stored multiple times in the PDF (even when it is possible to store
it once and reference it multiple times). The printer driver is not aware of
this and will produce huge output like PostScript or PDF. Storing the
background in lower quality might solve your problem.

Waldo

"Tiina" <tijo@uwasa.fi> wrote in message
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> I have Powerpoint presentations, fairly simple, mostly text and simple
graphics created with ppt's drawing tools on program's default templates,
maybe some simple clipart included, files size usually etween 100 and 400
Kb. When I print these presentations to pdf with distiller printer driver
(in orger to deliver lecture handouts through internet), I get pdfs that are
about five times the original ppt-filesize, very slow (if not impossible) to
download/open by students, and sometimes impossible to print (or printing
takes half a day...).
> I've been having this problems since the recent update into Win XP from
NT4. I also tried printing first to file, then open the printer file with
Distiller to produce pdfs. The file sizes dropped to double (from above
mentioned 5 times) compared with original ptt-files, but they are still too
large. Any quick fixes to this problem?
> Tiina