[scribus] pdf size

[Kunda Loves Scribus]

On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:

> On 05/16/2014 09:10 AM, Wayne DePrince Jr. wrote:
> > On ven, 2014-05-16 at 09:07 -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote:
> >
> >> On 05/16/2014 07:54 AM, Carolien Hofmans wrote:
> >>> Works like a charm! From 31,2 MB to 4,9 MB! Thank you so much!
> >>>
> >>
> >> This comes about because your images are entered bitwise into the PDF,
> >> so if you don't restrict the image resolution, you put the whole image
> >> file in the PDF.
> >>
> >> With text, there can be a problem when Scribus must outline the font, in
> >> which case you are creating graphics out of each individual glyph.
> >
> >
> >     this thread is full of all good information as an addendum to that
> > in the wiki.  i am having similar issues and did not think of text as
> > being a potential cause of the large PDF size.  is there a way to avoid
> > having Scribus outline each glyph?  does it depend on the font type?
> >
>
> Yes it does. Some fonts must be outlined. Some have a licence which does
> not allow embedding, and so far, many OTF fonts cannot be embedded.
>
>
> back to images:
>
> here is a wiki page I made to illustrate the relationship between export
> parameters, resolution, and file size:
>
>
> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes
>
> Greg
>

Greg, holy moly, that wiki page is thorough!! Very satisfying level of
detail there. Thanks for all the time you spend examining and reporting on
such things!

/Kunda
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