[scribus] Making PDF smaller

[Gregory Pittman]

On 09/07/2010 05:39 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
> Am 06.09.2010 22:57, schrieb Gregory Pittman:
>> On 09/06/2010 04:04 PM, Rudolf Vavruch wrote:
>>> Submitted on 09/06/2010
>>> Submitted by anonymous user: [10.1.5.224]
>>>
>>> Submitted values are:
>>>
>>> Name: Rudolf Vavruch
>>> Email Address: vavruch at gmail.com
>>> Subject: Making PDF smaller
>>> Message:
>>> Hi, I'm sending this from the contact form on scribus.net.
>>>
>>> My friends and I are making an online magazine, you can view the first
>>> issue here: exhibitmag.co.za. The second issue is complete but for one
>>> problem - as a PDF it's too big. I've tried various methods of exporting
>>> it but nothing gets it looking good unless it is around 400MB. My friend
>>> took this PDF opened it in Illustrator and when closing it, it asked him
>>> if he wanted to remove superfluous data (or something similar),
>>> bookmarks and other things. It then compressed the file down to 40MB!
>>> But I've noticed one problem, occasionally some of the text is messed
>>> up.
>>>
>>> Is there anyway I can compress the generated PDF without dropping image
>>> resolution and keeping all the text as is?
>>>
>>> I am using ScribusNG 1.3.5 - that comes with Linux Mint 8 Helena.
>>
>> Hi Rudolf,
>>
>> Try these:
>>
>> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Shrinking_a_PDF_from_the_command_line
>> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF
>>
>> What these involve is conversion to PS then back to PDF.
>>
>> Greg
>>
>
> Just thought I'd try that first one, but this is what came out:
>
> myfile.pdf: 2660277
> myfile.ps: 354513891
> myshrunkenfile.pdf: 72428732
>
> That means, the "shrunken" file is actually bigger than the original one.
>
> Any idea?

It means you need to try the other way. I've noticed the same thing 
sometimes -- I think this page needs editing.

Greg