[scribus] Smaller file sizes?

[Thomas Zastrow]

Nigel Ridley schrieb:
> 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
>
"Embed" includes the complete Fonts into the PDF while "Outline" 
converts the text to curves. As far as I know, it depends, sometimes 
embedding the fonts can result in smaller files than converting the text 
to outline.

Best,

Tom


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