[scribus] Smaller file sizes?

[Peter Nermander]

> the ones that I produce (a top full width logo; two column text with 4 or
> 5 jpg's) but their's
> are around the 500 KB mark whilst mine are 1.3 Mb! Their's are produced
> using 'easyPDF SDK 4.3'
> and 'InDesign CS 3.0.1'.

After reading through the digest my guess is that they do not embed fonts.
If they use fonts available on the readers computer everything will still
work fine, but if they use fonts the reader don't have it will ha to be
replaced by some other font.

There are some "core" PDF fonts that all PDF readers should support, so if
you stick to them you don't need to embed.

I'm not sure if Scribus can prevent embedding (doesn't have Scribus
installed here), but it probably can. So, instead of converting to
outline, just don't embed the core fonts.

I think Adobe Reader can tell you what fonts are included, then you can
look at the other guy's PDFs and see if there are any fonts embedded.

/Peter