PDFs in XP are bigger and TABs turn into boxes in Acrobat 9

I recently upgraded a computer from Windows 2000 to Windows XP.
Now when Illustrator saves as PDF the files are 100kb or more bigger.
TAB characters display as rectangles in Acrobat 8 and 9, but not 5.
I have since tested 3 computers in about 10 different combinations of XP, 2000, Acrobat 5,8,9 with Illustrator 10 and CS2.
Without fail, it looks like Illustrator can not create a proper PDF in Windows XP.
Another note is that some fonts are saved as AFM (or whatever the A icon means) in the PDF but they are all TTF when saved in XP.
In windows 2000 the PDFs created are always smaller and the Tabs do not show up as rectangles in either XP or 2000.
Windows 2000 - 40kb
Windows XP - 130kb
This is just with a few Arial fonts and some shapes. Both using Illustrator 10.
So there you go. Have fun using XP.

>I recently upgraded a computer from Windows 2000 to Windows XP.
Did you do an upgrade or a clean install of XP?
My guess is the latter because...
>Another note is that some fonts are saved as AFM (or whatever the A icon means) in the PDF but they are all TTF when saved in XP.
...if I understand you correctly, it sounds like the fonts you were using in your Win 2000 setup did not get installed in your XP setup. (The 'a' icon indicates a PostScript Type 1 font.) Lacking the original fonts, Illustrator probably used available TrueType or OpenType versions. (Did you get a font substitution message the first time you opened your documents in your XP setup?) Since you are embedding different fonts in your PDF document, you can expect file size differences.
Different fonts (with possibly different encodings) could also account for the "rectangles."
If indeed you did a clean install of XP, you must be sure all OS and application features and settings -- e.g., fonts, language, ai prefs -- are the same as they were in your Win 2000 setup. Otherwise, comparisons are meaningless.
There is absolutely no reason change of OS, in and of itself, would cause larger PDFs to be created.

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