[scribus] pdf size

[Thorsten Rochelmeyer]

Hello Carolien,

in my experience, Sribus also makes very large PDFs with text too. There
was an explanation once, IIRC it had to do with how precisely Scribus
renders Text.

My workaround is to open the Scribus-generated-PDF with a viewer (Okular
in my case) and to print it to PDF again from inside the viewer. This
usually results in much smaller PDFs wich are still okay for
distribution via web and for printing with the usual desktop printers.

Only the printshop gets the larger Scribus PDF.

Thorsten


Am 16.05.2014 13:25, schrieb Carolien Hofmans:


> Ok thank you very much. 
>
> I'll try with low loss JPEGs, maybe that's why the PDF's are so big. 
>
> ----- Oorspronkelijk bericht -----
>
> Van: "JLuc" <jluc at no-log.org> 
> Aan: scribus at lists.scribus.info 
> Verzonden: Vrijdag 16 mei 2014 12:37:52 
> Onderwerp: Re: [scribus] pdf size 
>
> Le 16/05/2014 12:21, Carolien Hofmans a écrit : 
>> Yep, but this is good for mailing, I have to print them myself too. With ghostscript the quality for printing is reduced. 
>> Any thoughts ? 
> There is no reason to use same version for different users and needs. 
>
> As for me, i create 2 PDF versions : 
> - one with max 300 dpi high quality low loss JPEGs (because no loss is useless but leads to huge PDFs) 
> this is for printer 
> - one with max 75dpi and medium quality medium loss JPEGs, that is allready much smaller 
> and that can be further reduced in size using the various tricks of the wiki. 
>
> JL 
>
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>> Van: "Staffan Melin (Oscillator)" <staffan.melin at oscillator.se> 
>> Aan: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus at lists.scribus.net> 
>> Verzonden: Vrijdag 16 mei 2014 12:15:16 
>> Onderwerp: Re: [scribus] pdf size 
>>
>> On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 6:05 AM, Carolien Hofmans 
>> <chofmans at cawdekempen.be> wrote: 
>>> Thx, for answering this quickly :-) 
>>>
>>> I tried this before and still its very big. 
>>> The problem is I have to make newsletters, about 32 pages, and at the moment it's just not possible because of the size. 
>>> Have you got experience with this? 
>> Have you tried using ghostscript: 
>>
>> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Reduce_the_size_of_Scribus_generated_PDFs 
>>
>> (Also: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Web_optimised_PDF) 
>>
>> /Staffan 
>>
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