On Tuesday 04 April 2006 23:16, Wolfgang Dobler wrote: > I think the PDF export dialog could need some improvements to make > production of web-oriented (i.e. compact) PDF easier. > > If I export a document with a few JPEG images to PDF and click > `Resample images', there are two points that are irritating. > > 1. Images are also `upsampled' (refined) if they originally had a > lower resolution than what I choose here. I think this is rarely > useful and if it needs to be possible, there should at least be a > radio button `Never upsample' [replace by word that really exists] > that is on by default. > In an ideal world, this situation would never occur, but in > reality you have to deal with low-resolution photos from you > contributors all of the time. > > 2. The default settings for compression are `Compression Method: > Automatic' and `Compression Quality: Maximum'. > The tooltip for `Automatic' tells me quite convincingly that > Scribus knows what is good for me. But it doesn't, because as soon > as I resample, the compression is lossless and so the resulting PDF > file gets huge. > > For web-oriented PDF, good defaults would be `Compression > Method: Lossy - JPEG' and probably `Quality: High'. > To distinguish this from the maximum-quality settings > desirable for print-oriented PDF, I see two options: > (a) change the defaults as soon as resampling is activated > (which you would not normally do for print-shop PDF). > (b) add a radio-button or menu list where the user can choose > between `web-oriented (compact)' and `print-oriented (best > quality)' settings. If you go for `web-oriented', the compression > method and quality get set to the defaults given above. > > I know that Scribus focuses more on print-oriented output, but > given that all the pieces for efficient image compression are > there, it is a shame that users need to to do `strange things' to > get compact PDF out of Scribus. > With `strange things', I mean e.g. to not believe the tooltip > when it says it knows what it is doing. I know other people who had > a hard time figuring the JPEG compression settings out, and it also > took myself (who likes to play and experiment) far too long. > > > Opinions? > > Should I post this as an enhancement request (might take a while as > I leave for holidays tomorrow)? > > > W o l f g a n g > _______________________________________________ > Scribus mailing list > Scribus at nashi.altmuehlnet.de > http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/mailman/listinfo/scribus
Yes, Please file this on http://bugs.scribus.net Peter
