[scribus] Concatenating PDFs - quality?

[Rolf-Werner Eilert]

Am 22.12.2011 15:06, schrieb Gregory Pittman:
> On 12/22/2011 04:02 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
>> Am 22.12.2011 09:29, schrieb Owen:
>>>
>>>> Hi folks,
>>>>
>>>> Currently I'm working at a little book with a lot of photos. After
>>>> page
>>>> 12 or so I noticed that Scribus takes more and more time to load. All
>>>> of
>>>> this is discussed in the Wiki. So I decided to start the next part of
>>>> the book as a new file.
>>>>
>>>> There is only one thing: When I concatenate the PDFs after finishing
>>>> the
>>>> book, will this have any impact on the photos? Do they need to be
>>>> extracted/deflated and inflated again, or does the PDF file format
>>>> allow
>>>> for a simple cut-and-paste of whole contents?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> AFAICT, concatening pdf files does not affect the images.
>>>
>>> A pdf file is a text/binary file and joining them does not affect the
>>> body of the file
>>>
>>> The reverse, breaking, or rearranging a pdf file does not affect the
>>> contents.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> --
>>> Owen
>>
>>
>> Thanks, Owen. I would have expected it to be so, but one never knows ;-)
>>
>> Just wanted to make sure I don't run into some trouble later.
>>
>
> I just made a PDF of some vacation photos, for which I had to break up
> the Scribus document so that I could work with them in Scribus, then
> used pdftk to join them. The result was a >700MB PDF, in which I saw no
> problems.
>
> Greg
>
>

Do you want to make a photobook out of it? That's what I'm trying here. 
But the service I found will only accept up to 300 MB, so I worry a bit. 
How do you send 700 MB? Or do you burn a CD?