man, 2003-05-19 kl. 16:51 skrev Peter Linnell: > On Mon, 2003-05-19 at 04:20, Claus Paludan wrote: > > I am running Scribus 0.9.9 and the latest version of GhostSript. Last > > night I tried to create a pdf file - it contained 3 pics at 50kb in > > average and only one page of document. But the PDF file ended up > > between 3.5Mb and 9.5Mb depending on the settings in the pdf export > > pages. > > What type of images ? TIFF PNG ? JPEG ? Resolution of images ? Which > distro ? > > Ghostscript 7.06? or 8.0 ? >
Ghostscript 7.07. Jpegs 650x450 approx. > How many and what fonts ? A single Unicode TTF font can be up to 5 Mb > and Scribus embeds fonts completely - for reliability. Did you target a > printer or screen ? 2 fonts - verdana + verdana bold (don't know if it's only one). I tried targeting both printer and screen - still gave way to large files.. > > There are many variables to creating PDF which effect the size. There > are about 110 distilling parameters which are part of the PDF spec. > > IMO, Franz has done a masterful job of enabling advanced features > available only on the Full Acrobat Suite running on Win or Mac. At the > same time masking the complexities without "dumbing down" or limiting > quality, unlike other applications. I am sorry if my first posting sounded too harsh - it was in no circumstances thought that way. Having a dtp program like this for linux is wonderfull :-) > > I create dozens of PDF's a week with Scribus and have never had an issue > with "excessive" size. If the PDF is large, it is because I want a > "press-ready" PDF and then I am not concerned about size but quality. > I am targeting the web - therefore the wish for small pdf's ;) > Stuff that bloats a PDF: > > Nested EPS within EPS files. (This also slows down display in Acro > Reader) > Many fonts in a doc. > Excessive resolution in images. > Scaling images down. Scaling down might be an issue here... will check.. > Unneeded ICC profiles embedded in images. > > Stuff that keeps PDF sizes slim: > > Minimize usage of EPS for "screen" oriented (72-96 dpi) PDF's. > *Sometimes*, but not in all cases... > > Convert TIFF's to PNG or JPEG at 72-96 dpi. > > Use fonts which are already available with Acro Reader: Times, > Arial,Helvetica Courier etc and can be substituted by the reader. > > Export directly from Scribus. ps2pdf from Ghostscript can do some weird > things to fonts, which display poorly. Depending on the options, can > rasterize the type into bitmaps and print poorly. The pdfwrite device in > Ghostscript has some limitations. The Ghostscript team are devoting a > lot of effort to improving this in 8.x Ghostscript. > > You can post a sample PDF, as well as the Scribus files, so that we can > inspect the files. > > The collect to output makes this easy to then tar.gz up the directory. > > Hope that helps, > > Peter Well posting a sample pdf in such a huge size isn't good ethics on mailing lists. I will try out your suggestions and get back to the list... -- Mvh Claus Paludan
