Have been creating 16-page newsletters in Publisher. They've been coming in at around 10 Mb. When exported as a pdf, the size remained constant.
This month the Publisher file came in at 59.2 Mb. The exported pdf version was 54.92 Mb. Since our email service limits the size of our attachments to 25 Mb, this poses a serious problem.
To save space, we linked the artwork and photos instead of having them embedded. The linked version came in at 12.0 Mb. But when we exported that file as a pdf, it was 54.9 Mb.
What's going on? Why all of a sudden is our file so much bigger. A check in "resource manager" shows only three files in the 1-2 Mb size range, the others are in kB size.
Attached is the original file (with embedded art). If anyone can tell me what I can do differently, it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
October_2019.afpub