[Scribus] Generating PDFs

[Tino Schwarze]

On Thu, Jun 01, 2006 at 11:11:00PM -0700, Michael Eager wrote:

> >>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.
> 
> It seems extraordinarily large.  It's a distinct disadvantage
> compared to files generated by other programs.  Documents which
> take a long time to download or print are less desirable.
> 
> Documents which don't print are even less desirable.  :-)

What's the resolution of your pictures (they're not part of the .sla
file, they are only referenced therein)?

You could try to convert the PDF to PS using pdftops from xpdf.

Tino.