This IS the Avid L2: Re: [Avid-L2] OT: Help converting PowerPoint to PDF

John -

When you go to save as in PowerPoint and select the pdf option, do you see two options "Standard" and "Minimum Size?"

The Minimum Size option will create a much smaller .pdf file that might get closer to your original PPT fize size.

I've used this option in the past.

I'm not sure what version of PowerPoint you are using or whether this option is available to you, but I'm passing this along for what it's worth.

Ron Loneker, Jr.
Director of Media Services
College of Saint Elizabeth
Mahoney Library
2 Convent Road
Morristown, NJ 07960

Phone: 973-290-4229

e-mail: rloneker@cse.edu

On Thu, Jan 8, 2015 at 2:01 PM, John Beck jb30343@windstream.net [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:

Sorry about the Way Off Topic post but I know there are lots of smart
people here.

I have a Powerpoint file (about 50 slides, about 3.5 MB) that I want to
convert to a PDF so that it can be available via a link from a website.
When I do a "save as" or a print to pdf from Powerpoint, the result is
about twice the size of the original ppt. I've tried re-saving from
Adobe Acrobat using the "reduce file size" option but it doesn't reduce
it significantly. Is there a way to create a pdf that is more or less
the same size as the original ppt?

Many thanks for any help or insight!! Feel free to reply off list. --J.B.