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Quark 8 (evaluation copy):

Size of PDF depends on how it's produced - same as in Quark 7.

File A (all text, not colour) : pdf via ps and Distiller: 28Kb; saved as pdf: 64Kb; exported as pdf: 36Kb 

File B (text and colour picture) : pdf via ps and Distiller: 456Kb; saved as pdf: 8Mb; exported as pdf: 11.8Mb

Not sure if I mentioned this before for Quark 7 ("senior moment" attack...); but is there a reason why each method gives a differnt sized pdf?

Export is using the Jaws technology that's integrated whithin Quark – I wouldn't suggest using it to create pdf with pictures in it as it will create bigger pdf (as you found out). It's made for simple files, not high end use. That's the short answer.

I've seen a Quark tech note (on their website) explaining this but I can't find it anymore.

Hi Shaun,

I'm quoting from a different thread here: "the PDF files exported via the JAWS engine are indeed larger than Distiller's, no doubt, But not in the dimensions implied by you and other people. If there is such a huge difference in file size than the export settings used are not comparable to the ones used within the Distiller joboption.
There was/is one issue with Photoshop duotone images which can't be downsampled by JAWS but everything else is handled nearly the same way as in Acrobat Distiller if the same settings are used."

Please check your compression settings in your PDF export options.

"if the same settings are used..."

Ah. 

I'd assumed they would be the same within Quark for export and print. OK. Will check the settings.

Thanks. 

Watch the settings, unless they have changed in the new beta version of quark 8. When adobe talks about high in regards to compression, high means high quality (low compression). In quarkland when you say high, you mean high compression, which translates to low quality.

Unless there is some trademark issue here, just another case of quark "knowing better", which in fact could come back and bite the unsuspecting user in the...