[Scribus] PDF file size

[Craig Bradney]

Will also depend on your image compression options. If theres no compression 
and formats that PDF cannot use internally are used, then they will be 
converted to large PDF X Objects.

Craig

On Friday 17 December 2004 01:36, Rainer Heilke wrote:
> Try the "Subset" option in the PDF output window. I've had similar
> problems, and this option fixed them when dropping resolutions didn't.
>
> Rainer Heilke
>
> Paraplegic Racehorse wrote:
> > Scribus 1.2, SuSE 9.1 Pro
> >
> > I am in the process of creating some PDF documents of several series
> > of disparate, but themed, graphics files. I am unable to achieve
> > anything resembling reasonable PDF output file size, however. In one
> > case, I have somewhat less than one page of text (two fonts, embedded)
> > and approximately 12 pages of assorted graphics files. Within my
> > filesystem, the combined size of all the graphics is about four MB of
> > [mostly] reduced-color-palatte GIF files. The output PDF, however, is
> > nearly 20MB! (8.0 x 10.5 pages, 300dpi, reduce images to 300dpi, embed
> > two fonts, Acrobat 5.0, generate thumbs, include bookmarks, format for
> > printer)
> >
> > The only thing that immediately comes to mind, concerning how to
> > reduce file size is to reduce the resolution, which I am loathe to do.
> > Can anyone toss me some pointers?
> >
> > Incidentally, the first four of the PDFs are available at
> > http://homepage.mac.com/charlesreynolds/werldwerks/models/index.html
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