[Scribus] Problems with PDF file size

[Craig Bradney]

If your images are linked in then the Scribus file only needs a
reference to the file, not the actual image.

I am not sure why Scribus's exported PDF files can be so large. I have
had 8mb Indesign produced PDF files and basically the same thing
produced by Scribus is about 50mb. I'm guessing its the option that
Indesign has to crop images to only include the section that is shown in
the final PDF. That was with an early 1.1.1 too. Have to see what the
developers think re that. If the option to crop images to only have the
shown section can be included it would really shrink the resulting PDFs.

Craig

On Tue, 2003-10-07 at 04:54, Michael Hund wrote:
> I produced my first 24 page Triumph Newsletter last month on version
> 1.0.1, and was very happy with the result.
> 
> This month I produced the same size newsletter using version 1.1.0.
> Certainly the font rendering is much better. In order to install from
> sources, I installed ghostscript 8.11 first, then installed Scribus.
> I've seen some of the ghost text boxes mentioned in earlier postings.
> 
> However, I seem to be having trouble with the pdf output. Last month
> the pdf output file size was 3.5mb, from a scribus file of 308.8kb.
> This month I had a pdf file size of 27.3mb, from a scribus file of
> 323.4kb.
> 
> As a trial I output last month's edition using 1.1.0, and the output
> size is 3.3mb, so it appears to be something I've done in the new
> edition, nothing to do with the new scribus version. I've looked at
> the edition, and there is very little difference I can see. Obviously,
> there is different text and images. I've checked each imported image
> size, and nothing seems to account for it. But I might be missing
> something.
> 
> I had difficulty exporting the pdf, with many pages missing text, some
> of it old text from the previous edition, some of it newly placed. By
> going through and selecting and then unselecting everything on each
> page, I was able to get it to work.
> 
> So I have the following questions:
> 
> How can the scribus file size be so small, particularly with many png
> images included, some are larger than the scribus file?
> 
> When I made the new edition, in some cases I simply re-imported an
> image into an existing image box. Is this OK? Does the old image
> information stay in the file?
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Michael Hund
> 
> (After the new installs, my print system doesn't work, I tried
> re-building cups, and even loaded esp ghostscript, but no luck, my
> wife says I should go back to Windows!)
> 
> 
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