On Friday 12 September 2008 10:52:51 am Julian Robbins wrote: > How can I produce a reasonable looking 2 page (A4) PDF file that is > less > > > than 1 Mb? > > > > I have done everything in the export to PDF to get the file size > > down (resample to 72 DPI etc). > > How do the competition manage such small file sizes? > > I have this problem a lot with datasheets I produce. > > I recommend using this script > http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF that someone > came up with that is excellent for two reasons : > > 1: It uses ghostscript and postscript to completely reform the PDF, > resulting in far, far smaller PDF's without losing image > resolution. Scribus devs have always said that the way Scribus > produces PDF's is compliant but not good at small file size. This > gets around it. I have compressed PDF's by 10 times without any > loss of image quality with changing image DPI. > > 2: The way that Scribus produces PDF's also does not form proper > readable, indexable plain text. Go to Adobe Reader and try save as > text, and see what happens. If indexation of text is important to > you, then the script reforms the PDF so the file is completely > indexable - great for web PDF's, and for Google to index it too. > > The only issues I have noticed is :- > > Stick with PDF1.4/1.5 format for export, PDF1.6 seems to give > blurry text. Dont know why. If you use images with transparent > sections, ie pngs. then the transparency isnt respected, and you > will get a black area where it should be clear. > > Good luck > > Julian
I tested this script and depending on the degree of compression already applied I got reductions of 2x on one sample and about 5x on another. So I will switch my e-book project back to Scribus and see what happens. -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm
