Adobe Interactive Form PDF doubles in size after saving

Hi all,
We have a interactive form, and after generation it's about 925 kB (when saving).
Now, when you change a single field (add some input or something), and then saving, the file size almost doubles to 1778 kB.
Ofcourse, we would rather have a smaller PDF size.
Does anybody else have this problem and/or knows what causes this ?
I think it's a general problem, but still would be nice if I could explain what is causing it...
Thanks in advance !
L.

Here's one way I could think of doing it. Not sure if it's the most efficient. There may be some function modules out there....
You write a small program to print an Adobe form from the RFC.
Before you call Job open (CALL FUNCTION 'FP_JOB_OPEN'
), set the following parameters of
sfpoutputparams.
Set the outputparamaters to suppress the dialog
utputparams-nodialog = 'X'.
Set to print to a dummy printer
outputparams-dest = 'LP01'.
Set a spool request
outputparams-REQNEW = 'X'.
Then you can call a program like rstxpdft4 to download the PDF file.
Regards,
Lavaughn

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