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2011-09-16 05:53:02
Vihanga
Registered: Sep 16 2011
Posts: 1

Hi everybody,
 
I just created my first form with 9 different fields. The size of the form is already 512 KB. Is that normal? When I add received forms to the answer file it grows everytime some 500 Kb, so in the end when I add 500 answers I would have 250 MB. Is there a way to import data without such a growth of the answer file?
 
Thanks for answers
Vi

My Product Information:
Acrobat Standard 9.4.3, Windows
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2011-09-16 09:25:55
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thomp
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Registered: Feb 15 2006
Posts: 4411
The size of the PDF file has nothing to do with it being a form. It has to do with the content of the PDF. How was it created? from a scanned document? from a word file? Does it contain images? Have you opened and saved this file many times? What features have you added to the file; headers/footers, page numbers, etc.?

Unfortunately you have Standard, which does not include any of the file optimization tools. But one thing you can do is SaveAs. When a PDF file is saved, Acrobat does not write over existing file, it appends the changes to the end. So Saved files always get bigger. When you do a SaveAs, Acrobat creates a new file without all the old data.

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