[scribus] scribus Digest, Vol 91, Issue 30

[Gregory Pittman]

On 10/31/2015 06:38 PM, Great Dane wrote:
> On 1 November 2015 at 02:16, Johannes Deutch <zelbstzz at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> For Windows, the following thread, "How to convert PDF File into smaller
>> size" will give you a couple of leads:
>>
>>
>> http://www.techsupportalert.com/freeware-forum/home-office-and-productivity/2442-how-to-convert-pdf-file-into-smaller-size.html#post16978
> 
> 
> This prompted me to try something to see if it worked. (BTW my first post,
> I am no expert, but hopefully may be of some use to the group)
> 
> I have Windows 7 Professional, and use Acrobat Pro 10. I opened a 13 page
> document authored in Scribus and exported as a pdf, which was just over 3mb
> in size in Acrobat. I then clicked Print, chose Adobe pdf, clicked on
> Properties, and then the Adobe pdf settings, changed the Default Settings
> to smallest file size, then OK and Print, saving it with an altered file
> name. The resulting file was down to just under 700kb.
> 
> Looking at both files at 100%, I can hardly see any change of quality of
> the images, and none for text. Certainly if your “clientele” have problems
> handling larger file sizes in emails, this seems to work for me.
> 
> Trying the Save As>Reduced File Size pdf, hardly made any significant
> difference in file size, whereas this little procedure certainly did.
> 

I can understand that this would work, but it's a black box solution.
What does Acrobat do to accomplish this?

We know that the size of images will increase PDF size, also that
embedding fonts will. Are there other tricks?

Greg