[Scribus] question on size

Paul paulf.johnson
Wed Jul 9 20:39:24 CEST 2003


Hi,

> With only text, my newsletter is 635 KB (exported to PDF). Then I add in 
> 555 KB worth of photos. By my math, that comes to 1190 KB. Yet the final 
> PDF is 2.6 MB. What's up with that? And I also learned that PDFs don't 
> compress, which doesn't make me happy, either.

It's the way of it - pictures have to have place holders, be embedded
and wotnot. PDFs if they're text will compress - it's the graphics which
won't.

TTFN

Paul
-- 
The world is throwing away oppressive regimes
Which don't allow people to choose.
Wars are fought to topple these people.
Yet the folks who do this, still use Windows.
Double standards or not understanding why they did it?




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