Before I switched to Win10, I used Adobe Acrobat 8 to print to PDF. The PDF printer included with Windows 10 (Microsoft Print to PDF) produces files that are many times larger than those produced by Acrobat.
For example, an old-style Word .doc that's 77kB was rendered as a 28kB .pdf by Acrobat, but Microsoft Print to PDF creates a 325kB .pdf!
I can't find any settings that can be changed in Microsoft Print to PDF to reduce the size of the PDFs it creates. Are there any tricks to do so?
Best Answer
I found out that the "Microsoft Print to PDF" printer can be tricked into using a lower resolution than 600x600 DPI. Follow the instructions here, but do not add a paper size, but change the resolution (almost at the end of the two files) from 600x600 to 300x300 or even 150x150. Then the resulting file size is smaller.
An alternative is the Win2PDF printer, where one can set the resolution using the printer settings dialog.