[scribus] Pdf file size

[Kunda Loves Scribus]

On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:

> On 10/30/2015 01:27 PM, John Beardmore wrote:
> > I've produced an environmental report in Scribus 1.5 under windows.
> >
> > With best resolution pictures the .pdf file is 136 megabytes, and with
> > low resolution it's still 11 megabytes.
> >
> > My clients are having problems uploading these files when making funding
> > applications because of their size.
> >
> > Two questions then...
> >
> >   What type and settings for PDF output is most likely to produce
> >   compact output ?
> >
> > And
> >
> >   I seem to recall somebody saying that you could run Scribus
> >   .pdf files through some tool or other, which made them a lot
> >   smaller without noticeable loss of quality. Can anybody
> >   remember which tool this is ?  I have access to Linux boxes
> >   too if needs be.
>
>
> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Web_optimised_PDF
>
> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Reduce_the_size_of_Scribus_generated_PDFs
>
>
> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes
>
> Greg


Bringing this thread back to topic (and appropriate email subject)...I have
a question.
Would it be interesting and possible, once we get QML/QtQuick2 working, to
have plugins that integrate some of these CLI pdf tools and call them
within Scribus?

Of course I want to be mindful of the fact that we don't want to create
more code to maintain and upkeep. That's why I'm thinking of a solution
that would just be a GUI wrapper  around said 3rd party CLI PDF tool. Sort
of how there are GUIs for ffmpeg and such...

Thoughts?

/Kunda
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