Nik wrote: > Hi Nigel, > > My apologies if I am butting in here, but I thought I'd just add my > experiences. > >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 08:36:04PM +0300, Nigel Ridley wrote: >> >>> >> I need to produce two versions of the same newsletter. >>> >> The first will be to send to our local printing house as a PDF >>> with the >> graphics at 300 dpi. >>> >> The second version is for sending via email. >>> >> >>> >> Am I right in thinking that prior to saving the second version as >>> a pdf, I >> can reduce the overall resolution to, say 72 dpi? Will my >>> graphics stay the >> same physical size in the layout? >>> > I do exactly this regularly. > > Yes you are correct that the graphics will stay the same size in the > layout. > > To get a reasonably-sized PDF for email, I do the following: > > 1. embed and outline all fonts (was "outline" called "subset" in earlier > versions of Scribus?) > 2. resample images to 72 dpi (I do the same for EPS but we seldom > actually use EPS) > 3. enable image compression, method=lossy - JPEG, compression > quality=High or Medium > > These settings work well for our newsletter which is typically 12 pages > with about 20 images. > The end result is usually about 500kB (half a megabyte) in size. > > Greater reduction can be achieved using lower quality image compression > (if you need it). > > For us, the greater challenge actually is to get the high-quality > version of the document small enough to send through the printing > company's lobotomised email server. > > Maybe you want to try this first, as it works all from within Scribus. > If the PDF is still too big, then try the command-line compression > suggested by Tino.
I'm still waiting for a reply to a problem I encountered using his one-liner..... See the post under the thread Re: [scribus] DPI and PDF question Blessings, Nigel > > Cheers! > Nik > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > > -- PrayingForIsrael.net http://www.prayingforisrael.net/
