[scribus] Three questions and a suggestion

[Jan de Weerd]

Hi Ian,

On 09/17/2011 06:07 PM, Ian "Witty" Whitfield wrote:
> On 17/09/2011 16:34, John Culleton wrote:
>> If your document is intended for web reading then setting up Scribus
>> that way will significantly reduce the file size.
> Thanks John but what way are you talking about?? (Maybe Jan's post but
> his comes AFTER yours??)
>
> I produce using Scribus 1.4.0 RC5, My number of pages are between 30 and
> 50 each month with photos, and it is A4 size in colour. My 'Max Image
> Resolution' is set to 100dpi and my Compression Method is set to
> 'Automatic' and Quality to 'Maximum'.
>
> Last month's issue came out at around 30Mb - after the 'pdftops' &
> 'ps2pdf' conversion the file size was just under 3Mb!! This is what is
> available for the Members to download from my Server. (Many of the
> Members are in Africa where Bandwith is a problem and Net speed dismal!!)
>


Do you change your images (photos) before you insert them in the 
document? I use gimp to edit and scale the images to 300dpi and also to 
the size of the frames used in scribus. I save them as .tif. Probably 
this reduces the size of your output pdf file too.

Jan