[scribus] Huge PDF, need suggestions

[Richard]

Richard escribió:
> John Jason Jordan escribió:
>> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 14:11:09 -0700
>> John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> dijo:
>>  
>>> On Thu, 3 Sep 2009 20:20:00 +0200
>>> "a.l.e" <ale.comp_06 at xox.ch> dijo:
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> I was some time ago, a couple of years in a similar situation.
>
> .....
>
> Hello, my name is Richard, nice to met you all.
>
> Now....., i was some time ago, maybe a couple of years ago in a 
> similar situation, having a lot of problems to print a 700/800MB 
> "CorelDraw" catalog. (not my creation/idea/anything)
>
> Then i started using Scribus and made exactly the same work, but 
> ending with usable and of course big PDF files.
> At the beggining the problems were with transparencies, Adobe Reader 
> didn`t print transparencies correctly, every page where a transparency 
> were used appeared with some strange banding (bands, white stripes, 
> etc), but the major issue come with the file size, it took forever to 
> print when didn't froze my computer. I had a 3000MHz Athlon with 1 GB 
> RAM, but the same happened when using a 2.5(ish)GHz Athlon64 and 2GB DDR2
>
> I ended using Foxit reader, a lot faster and not even one issue on 
> transparencies. It worked flawlessly on my K7 3000
> Give it a try, then tell if it works for you. Is a small program, easy 
> to install, easy to uninstall. Is the option i`m using now, since 
> Adobe reader made me very sick.
>
> Greetings and best regards.
>
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Also, you could try to divide the document into chapters.