Gregory Pittman wrote: > Mike Breiding wrote: >> >> Now that I know that what I am wondering is this: when the image is >> scaled to fit the frame, does it reduce the image file size to reflect >> the newly scaled size? >> The reason I ask this is I am concerned about using full size images >> and thus bloating the size of the PDF and also slowing screen refreshes. >> >> Any thoughts on this?
> There are a lot of thoughts on this. > No, it does not reduce the image file size. Scribus just has a "pointer" > (to use a computer term) to the file location, regardless of how much of > the image and at what resolution Scribus is using it. Furthermore, it > loads the entire file into RAM. So the size of the image, the number of > images, the size of your RAM (+ swap in the case of Linux) all interact > to potentially be a problem. Scribus needs the whole file when it > generates a PDF or prints directly. > > For something small, with only a few images, it's usually not an issue. > After you use Scribus for awhile, you will get a sense of when to be > concerned. OTOH, if you are loading a multi-MB image and only using a > small piece of it, you would be wise to crop it (outside of Scribus) and > use the cropped version. OK. This is the way I thought it would be but needed verification. So, now I am looking at resizing all 800 images I will using to the approximate size I will be using in the book. Rather daunting to say the least! Any alternatives? Thanks, -Mike
