Hi,

With official openoffice.org 2.4.0 on Linux, I am having the following issue.

1) I have a writer document: 1 page, just text, odt file is 20 kB.
2) Exporting to PDF I get a 400 kB beast.  Changing PDF export options
(including PDF/A) does not change the thing
3) Passing the output PDF through ghostscript (e.g. with ps2pdf14) reduces it to
20 kB loosing no feature.

Something must have gone wrong with the pdf export filter. The pdfs that write
(and possibly the other applications in the suite) produce are so big that they
cannot be archived and make people unhappy when they are sent as email attachments.

Some analysis reveals that:
1) The pdf file as exported by OO embeds full sets of fonts (not just the needed
subsets - why?)
2) The pdf file as exported by OO embeds the same font many times with different
encodings (both built-in and custom - why?)

This issue is important: if pdf export is so bad at file sizes, for most uses it
is better to advice people to avoid it all together, going back to printing a ps
file and then converting it to pdf.