[scribus] Smaller file sizes?

[Nigel Ridley]

Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Thursday 11 September 2008 20:13:42 Xavier Colmant wrote:
>> 2008/9/11 Nigel Ridley <nigel at rmk.co.il>:
>>> I have to ask this;
>>>
>>> How can I produce a reasonable looking 2 page (A4) PDF file that is less
>>> than 1 Mb?
>>>
>>> I have done everything in the export to PDF to get the file size down
>>> (resample to 72 DPI etc).
>> Personally, I resize the pictures I want to use to a size close to the
>> one used in the final document.
>> Have also a look at multivalent tools. The compress tool might be
>> helpful to you (I never tried it, I just used the imposition tool) :
> 
> 
> How do you know its the images?
> 
> Try setting the fonts to outline on export as a test.

Wow! That reduced the file size to a respectable 553.7 KB from 1.3 MB :-)
What's the difference between 'Embed' and 'Outline'?

Nigel

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