Printers: Postscript vs Adobe PDF

ID CS2. I'm exporting an ID file to PDF (a book) per printer's instructions by printing it as a postscript file, then running it through distiller. This produces a whopping pdf of nearly 20 mb. Now, if I select Adobe PDF as the printer in ID, I can select the very same settings as when I printed it to ps file, but the pdf comes out about 1/7 the size. Why is that?

The PDF file bloat is due to a bug in InDesign 4. The bug is fixed in InDesign 5; the resultant PDF files are much smaller in size.
- Dov

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