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1) depends on content - is this just text with some formatting? Does the PDF embed fonts? Are there images? Etc. 2) docx format is wrapped in a zip file, so th
by Piskvorrr 14y ago
1) depends on content - is this just text with some formatting? Does the PDF embed fonts? Are there images? Etc.
2) docx format is wrapped in a zip file, so there is built-in default compression; PDF is not compressed by default
3) does it matter? Most documents I see these days are <1 MB; assuming that universal compression ratio of 3 is achieved, the PDF file would be 3 MB large - not very significant in absolute numbers.
I'd say it's not a conspiracy, just a different format - and that the size difference is not very significant.
(Now, a 200 MB docx versus a 600 MB pdf might be significant; but if you are routinely handling 200 MB documents, I'd suspect Something Is Horribly Wrong anyway).