2008/9/12 John Culleton <john at wexfordpress.com> > On Friday 12 September 2008 02:11:58 am Peter Nermander wrote: > > > the ones that I produce (a top full width logo; two column text > > > with 4 or 5 jpg's) but their's > > > are around the 500 KB mark whilst mine are 1.3 Mb! Their's are > > > produced using 'easyPDF SDK 4.3' > > > and 'InDesign CS 3.0.1'. > > > > After reading through the digest my guess is that they do not embed > > fonts. If they use fonts available on the readers computer > > everything will still work fine, but if they use fonts the reader > > don't have it will ha to be replaced by some other font. > > > > There are some "core" PDF fonts that all PDF readers should > > support, so if you stick to them you don't need to embed. > > Based on my TeX experience relying on these core fonts yields > uncertain results. I prefer to embed even these. And yes, my Scribus > files seem to be eating growth pills just like everyone else's. On > one project (an e-book on using Scribus for book covers) I had to > revert to using TeX just to get the file down to the size required by > my on-line e-book vendor. >
A search in the bugtracker with the words "pdf size" shows there have been a few bugs already on the size of the PDFs issue but none of these bugs are active now. I think the issue is serious enough to be flagged as a bug and with a reasonnably high priority too. We see here with your example that it could even be a showstopper in some cases. Louis -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080912/9b1cef8a/attachment.htm>
