PDFs are now twice as large

I am using Acrobat 7.1 with WinXP.
Over the last several months my usual 10-12-page Publisher newsletters are more than TWICE the .pdf file size they have been previously. I haven't been doing anything differently during that time. I have even now re-printed the older smaller .pub files to .pdf and they are now even twice the file size. Can anyone please offer a solution to this problem? Many thanks.
--Bill H

You may have changed the settings file selection, maybe for the better. You may not have been embedding all of the fonts for instance and now you are. It may also be that you changed from printing to the Adobe PDF printer and started using PDF Maker that by default adds a lot of bloat to the PDF. That bloat can be useful, but not if you are worried about size.

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