[Scribus] Generating PDFs

[Erich Dollansky]

Hi,

Michael Eager wrote:
> 
> When I generate a PDF from Scribus, the resulting file is large.
> Only the heading fonts are embedded and the text is compressed.
> The PDF is more than 2 times the size of the Scribus file and

this sounds normal to me.

> opens slowly in Acroread.  Printing from Acroread is very slow
> and frequently fails to print (I think that the printer runs
> out of memory).

Is it a postscript printer?
> 
> If I turn off text compression, the size of the PDF is
> much larger, about 25 times the size of the Scribus file.
> 
> Any suggestions on what causes this or how to correct
> these problems?
> 
Scribus generates very large PDFs to make sure that every detail is as 
expected.

Erich