For many years I have been preparing 4 page Word documents for electronic distribution on a weekly basis, (around 90kb in Word down to 40 kb pdf). In light of problems with Acrobat 8 and Snow leopard, I had to upgrade to CS4. Imagine my annoyance when, using my regular customised setting, I generated my first 4 page word document in Acrobat 9 and got a file size bigger (233 kb) than if I had used apple's pdf generator (176 kb). I generated a pdf using print to post script and I tried optimising, and still ended up with files of around 140kb still much bigger than the original word document.
It's like Acrobat 6 all over again (I have been using acrobat). I went back to using acrobat 5 then in disgust, but don't seem to have that option now.
My usual settings are save as Acrobat 7 at 300dpi, no fonts embedded, and all advanced options unchecked. As there are no images the settings there aren't relevant. It seems as if the fonts are embedded even though
Any idea as to what is causing this, and how I can get back to the previous file size?
(later) I just tried save as pdf with fonts embedded and got exactly the same size. So the question now becomes how do I unembed the fonts?