Dave King wrote:

I generated a manual that had a 32mb source file with graphics and text.
I used distiller to generate the pdf and it came out to 225K.

32 meg of plain ASCII text or 32 meg of bit mapped font characters
and many high resolution jpg's?

It was a POH and had cg charts, wiring diagrams, the works and about 30 pages
of text. I did another one which was scanned pages of an article about the
Polen
Special, it came out a bit larger but was only around 1meg.

I should have said was; "What other WP's work as INPUT other than Word? Lotus?"

Many programs can make pdf print files I suspect. As far as I know you
can't view or zoom a pdf print file. For one example.

I think your mistaken about the zoom, unless your viewer isn't working. All
the ones
I've done that way work just as well as the distiller versions.
(you got me curious and I checked)

Dave

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