Why is the size of my pdf increasing after I add text fields?

I have a simple pdf that by itself is 350kb. But when I add 4 text form fields it increases the size to 2.8mb. Why is this and what can I do to decrease the size but keep the fporm fields for users to type into?
thanks

George Johnson wrote:
Even if you specify Helvetica, Acrobat and Reader substitute a private version of Arial anyway, so all you're doing by specifying Arial is needlessly adding space. The problem is you can't go back and the fields to use Helvetica and see the file size reduction you might expect. This is due to what I consider to be a bug that I'm hoping will get fixed. So you have to start with a fresh PDF, but you can copy the old fields to the new if you first change them to Helvetica. Or if you know how to hack the PDF you can salvage it after changing the fields to Helvetica.
I was JUST about to type this. I went into my revised pdf and changed the form text boxes to Helvetica and it didnt change the file size. However I re-created the file from scratch and it is now keeping the file size at the original size. Thanks to both of you for the help!

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