[scribus] Smaller file sizes?

[Lars O. Grobe]

Hi list,

to get a reasonable file size for screen display, first, embed only the 
fonts that are not standard, and embed them as subset. Outlining is not 
reasonable for a document mainly based on text (forget about this 
copyright-idea - those who just read the text and use it in the intended 
way would be unhappy with not being able to copy e.g. names, phone 
numbers, web sites, while those who may want to steal your intellectual 
property to make money from it would certainly have little problems 
solving this "protection". If you want to protect your rights - think 
about how to enforce them if someone does something illegal instead of 
trusting in this kind of technical stuff...

But - for such a document, in most cases the size is related to the 
images. Check the resample images checkbox, and use something like 100 
or 72dpi for images, maybe little more (150dpi) for vector graphics. Use 
jpgs compression for images. Do not create thumbnails. Look at your 
image formats - jpg for photos, png or compressed tif for illustrations 
(and set the color depth of such images correctly - a logo with 4 colors 
does not have to be saved in high color depth, open it it Gimp and set 
mode to indexed, 4 color, e.g.).

CU Lars.