[scribus] Making PDF smaller

[Bo Engborg]

This seems to be one of the most asked questions. Is it not worth to include
pdf shrinking in Scribus? Not everyone (like myself) will find it easy to
install a couple of extra programs and work at the command line.

- Bo E -


2010/9/7 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com>

> 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
>
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