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March 24th, 2006, 08:40 AM
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Word tables in pdf format are highly inefficient
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! 
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March 24th, 2006, 09:02 AM
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Word tables in pdf format are highly inefficient
The only reason you could have for creating 13000 mailmerge PDFs is that
you're planning to email them. Spam, in other words. Keep pushing your head upwards until you can feel your spleen between your teeth. Then bite down hard. "Justin Hess" wrote in message news  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!
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March 24th, 2006, 02:53 PM
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Word tables in pdf format are highly inefficient
It's also just barely possible that Justin works for a central billing
company of some sort. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jezebel" wrote in message ... The only reason you could have for creating 13000 mailmerge PDFs is that you're planning to email them. Spam, in other words. Keep pushing your head upwards until you can feel your spleen between your teeth. Then bite down hard. "Justin Hess" wrote in message news 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!
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March 24th, 2006, 06:47 PM
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Word tables in pdf format are highly inefficient
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. -- Hope this helps. Please reply to the newsgroup unless you wish to avail yourself of my services on a paid consulting basis. Doug Robbins - Word MVP "Justin Hess" wrote in message news 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!
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March 25th, 2006, 12:27 AM
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Word tables in pdf format are highly inefficient
A central billing company wouldn't be wasting time with this sort of
amateurish technique. "Suzanne S. Barnhill" wrote in message ... It's also just barely possible that Justin works for a central billing company of some sort. -- Suzanne S. Barnhill Microsoft MVP (Word) Words into Type Fairhope, Alabama USA Word MVP FAQ site: http://word.mvps.org Email cannot be acknowledged; please post all follow-ups to the newsgroup so all may benefit. "Jezebel" wrote in message ... The only reason you could have for creating 13000 mailmerge PDFs is that you're planning to email them. Spam, in other words. Keep pushing your head upwards until you can feel your spleen between your teeth. Then bite down hard. "Justin Hess" wrote in message news 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!
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March 26th, 2006, 11:40 AM
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Word tables in pdf format are highly inefficient
Hi Justin,
The problem here is that the later versions of Word produce extremely verbose postscript files en-route to the PDFs. Older versions of Word generated much more compact output. For compactness, you would probably do better to have postscript files generated professionally. These could then be converted to relatively small PDFs. Cheers "Justin Hess" wrote in message news 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!
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