[scribus] Smaller file sizes?

[Nigel Ridley]

Craig Bradney wrote:
> On Thursday 11 September 2008 21:19:34 Nigel Ridley wrote:
>> 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'?
>>
> 
> Outlining just converts the glyphs to vector format, and throws away the rest 
> of the font data. That is, it basically turns the letters into images and 
> removes all ability to select the text etc.

I just opened my 'test' PDF and noticed that the 'fonts' are now an image and can't be selected 
as text (that's good in one respect - no one can copy the text into a text editor and reuse it - 
kind of like an imbeded copyright).
The downside is that the 'text' loses some of it's quality - it's not 'sharp' anymore.

> 
> Embed dumps the font file into the PDF for reuse by the reader software. One 
> day we will also have subset where only the use glyphs will be included.

Will this keep the quality of the text as sharp as 'embed'?

> 
> Craig
> 
> 

Nigel

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