Why are pdfs so much larger with Mac than a pc?

I have a MacBook Pro and I use the "save as" feature to create pdfs. These are much, much larger than when I used a pc. In fact, most times they are 2-3x the KB of the orginal document. How can I fix this?
Debbie

They arent.....you just have your settings set DIFFERENT on you MAC......I work with  Acrobat PDF creation everyday...., and make pdf every day on both Mac and Windows..
.......10 scanned books created in Acrobat for creation is the same as Win Acrobat pdf creation.
Check your pdf settings, optimization settings, dpi settings (for scans)
Make sure youre saving them as the same kind of PDF, there are ....>
archival PDF (pdf-a)
pdf-x
pdf-e
and other PDF embedding. Embedded fonts set/unset in default.

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