Why are the images in my Excel file larger when saved as a PDF?

Erica H

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I have an Excel file with images that I am trying to save as a pdf. When I do a "save as", the images in the pdf turn out much larger than they should be. This did not happen the first time, but I had to make a small correction on the Excel file and when I re-saved as a pdf, this problem popped up. How do I fix this?
 
Because the Quality is set to high, I you set the quality to medium it will shrink a little bit... also if you are using adobe acrobat to create the pdf you can also set the compatibility version to newer versions... the PDF won't open with earlier versions of acrobat reader but will also be a smaller file..


Ok I re-examined your question, if you pasted images from their original source as JPG files and then edited them on excel... there's a chance that excel converted those images internally into BMP which are almost 10 times bigger than JPG... i'd suggest that if you need to edit those images you do it before pasting them to excel...

hope this helps..
 
Because the Quality is set to high, I you set the quality to medium it will shrink a little bit... also if you are using adobe acrobat to create the pdf you can also set the compatibility version to newer versions... the PDF won't open with earlier versions of acrobat reader but will also be a smaller file..


Ok I re-examined your question, if you pasted images from their original source as JPG files and then edited them on excel... there's a chance that excel converted those images internally into BMP which are almost 10 times bigger than JPG... i'd suggest that if you need to edit those images you do it before pasting them to excel...

hope this helps..
 
Because the Quality is set to high, I you set the quality to medium it will shrink a little bit... also if you are using adobe acrobat to create the pdf you can also set the compatibility version to newer versions... the PDF won't open with earlier versions of acrobat reader but will also be a smaller file..


Ok I re-examined your question, if you pasted images from their original source as JPG files and then edited them on excel... there's a chance that excel converted those images internally into BMP which are almost 10 times bigger than JPG... i'd suggest that if you need to edit those images you do it before pasting them to excel...

hope this helps..
 
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