I'm currently facing an issue at my job, where I work as a Network Tech for an Intellectual Property law firm. After migrating our users to Windows 11 and updating from Adobe Acrobat 2017 to Acrobat 2024, I've noticed that when users print files to the Adobe PDF printer using a specific joboptions file from the USPTO, their PDF sizes are increasing dramatically. Usually, files range from 3-5mb, but now I'm seeing sizes balloon to 10 times that, with some PDFs reaching as high as 96 MB.
The page count of these documents varies, sometimes they are 10-15 pages and sometimes up to 75. I've tried numerous troubleshooting steps and even replicated the issue on my own machine. The only option that seems to impact the file size is whether I print as an image or not, but the effects are inconsistent—sometimes it helps, sometimes it doesn't. I'm really hoping to find some insight into this odd behavior as it doesn't happen consistently with all files.
3 Answers
You might want to check if OCR is turned on. If it's not necessary for your workflow, turning it off could help with the file sizes. Just scan in black and white without enabling character recognition, it might give you smaller file sizes.
It sounds like the issue might be related to how images are compressed in the PDFs. Every PDF has different compression settings for the document itself and the images in it. You could test this by zipping one of those oversized PDF files. If the zipped version is significantly smaller, then you likely have uncompressed images or settings that got messed up during the print process.
Have you considered using the 'Save as PDF' option in Office or LibreOffice instead of printing? It seems many operations can create PDFs without going through the printer setup, which could streamline your process. If it’s important to apply those USPTO settings, though, this might not be a complete solution.
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