On 13 Mar 97 at 23:01, Acrobat Talk Mailing List wrote:

> Date: 13 Mar 1997 09:01:49 -0800
> From: "Konstantin Dolgitser" <kdolgit@meson.fiadev21.lehman.com>
> Subject: Acrobat Exchange 3.0 under Unix
>
>
> Our company recently upgraded Acrobat Exchange 2.1 to Acrobat Exchange 3.0
> running under Unix on SUN. 3.0 has suppose to have some extra features and
> this
> is fine with me.
>
> What I found alarming is that when I run Exchange to convert pdf file to
> PostScript for printing the resulting postscript file is 6 times!!! larger
> than
> the one generated under Exchange 1.0 and 2.1
>
> Here is the sample of statistics. Original pdf file is 71KB, postScript files
> generated by Exchange 1.0 and 2.1 are 365KB and 393KB and Exchange 3.0 produces
> file over 2MB
>
> - -rw-r--r-- 1 impact 71358 Mar 12 08:54 /tmp/216370.pdf
> - -rw-r--r-- 1 impact 2163682 Mar 12 10:07 /tmp/216370.ps3
> - -rw-r--r-- 1 impact 365706 Mar 12 10:09 /tmp/216370.ps1
> - -rw-r--r-- 1 impact 393131 Mar 12 10:11 /tmp/216370.ps2
>
>
> Did anyone experiences similar problems with Exchange 3.0? Any comments from
> Adobe?
>
> Thank you,
> Konstantin
>
> Konstantin Dolgitser
> Lehman Brothers
> Email: kdolgit@lehman.com
> Phone: (212)526-1112
>

Yes, we have discovered the same thing. It appears that _ALL_
resources for _EACH_ page are included in the postscript file.

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