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Why is Word export to PDF of SAME Word file producing PDF file 10x larger today than on Oct.9?
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David Streich
15
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On Oct.9 and each previous week for the past couple years I prepared a new 20-page Word document weekly that contained text with perhaps a dozen emojis but NO images. The Word file sizes were about 100KB. Each week I then exported the Word document to PDF. The resulting PDF file was usually under 400KB. This past Monday (Oct.16) I tried to do the same as usual. But this time the PDF file size came out around 4MB!! So, I’ve tried some tests. The 99KB Word file from Oct.9 had resulted in a PDF of 376KB that day. Today I tried to export that same file and it produced a PDF of 3.9MB.
I’m suspecting that the Office update Version 2309 (Build 16827.20166) via Current Channel that was done automatically on Oct.10 is the culprit. The previous update was Sept.28 Version 2309 (Build 16827.20130) which did NOT have that problem.
I’m using Windows 11 Pro on a Dell laptop and have Office Professional Plus 2019.
Do I need to wait for a fix to the "bug" or is there a simple solution?
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GPE 51 Reputation points2024-04-16T14:08:39.2533333+00:00 We are having the same issue. My investigation have concluded that using an emoji (using the SegoeUI Emoji font) led to an increase of the file size of ten times! And we only used a single emoji in a single page! There is something seriously wrong with Word 2019 and Windows 11 and the emoji font when exporting as PDF.
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Charles Kenyon 2,561 Reputation points2024-04-18T22:11:59.65+00:00 @GPE
Do you have the conversion embed font information?
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GPE 51 Reputation points
2024-04-19T07:55:54.3233333+00:00 @Charles Kenyon I'm not sure I understand correctly your question.
I do have the "Embed fonts" option checked. Of course! This is one of the most useful thing of PDF files.
The thing is, even with using a single (!) Emoji in a file, it seems that the whole font is embedded. On Windows 11, this means a whopping 3.7 MB.
In Windows 10, it only adds 50 KB.
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