The headline for this item could have been
“Jimmy Bergmark Swims in Alphabet Soup.
” Bergmark, a popular AutoCAD consultant, blogger, and author, recently tested what happens when Excel cells are pasted into an AutoCAD DWG file, then printed to either PDF or DWF with various output tools.
I won't steal Bergmark's thunder by copying his results, but I found the winner for both usability and file size (smaller is better) to be a bit surprising.
Check out Bergmark's post,
“Comparison of DWG to PDF with OLE's." --RSN