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Hi,

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eric wrote:

I have read through forums and tried everything I know to no avail. Please help.

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You are not quite correct here, the PDF size problem in Mac version of AutoCAD was discussed a lot of times on the Forum:

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-general/issue-with-pdf-file-size/m-p/3768570/highlight...

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-general/autocad-batch-publish-file-size/m-p/5041030/hi...

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-general/plot-to-pdf-includes-slow-loading-layers/m-p/3...

http://forums.autodesk.com/t5/autocad-for-mac-general/pdf-filesize/m-p/4354132/highlight/true#M8463

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As I wrote many times before, the main case is in the fact that AutoCAD for Mac uses Mac OS PDF engine to render PDF files and you can get file size problem when:

- there are a lot of text objects in the drawing

- there are some specific hatch patterns in the drawing (such as dot)

- there are wide polylines in the drawing,

- there are a lot of Spline objects in the drawing,

- there are raster image files attached to the drawing.

Maxim