Am Donnerstag, 19. August 2010, 13:54:30 schrieb Bill Wheaton: > Hello List: I'm a new user to Scribus. Have been using it to lay out a > photo book and I have some file size issues. > > I need to output the book to pdf to upload to the printing service. Since > the pdf is so huge, there's a tip on the printer's (viovio.com) website > suggesting that ghostscript be used to knock down the file size to make it > more manageable. This all works fine until the size of the > scribus-generated PDF file gets larger than 2GB. At that point the > ghostscript pass-through fails. It happens consistently when the PDF is > bigger than 2GB and never happens if the PDF is less than 2GB. > > I'm not sure whether the problem is with the PDF or with ghostscript, so > I'm looking for help/troubleshooting advice. If no one can identify a > problem on the Scribus end, then I'll send inquiries to the ghostscript > crowd next. > > The ghostscript command will knock a 1.9GB PDF file generated by Scribus > down to less than 300MB which is very helpful. But any PDF bigger than > 2GB fails when passed through ghostscript > > Here's the setup: > Mac OS 10.6.2 > Scribus 1.3.6 > Ghostscript 8.71 > > Here's the ghostscript command: > gs-8.71-macosx -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dSAFER -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 > -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sstdout=%stderr > -dGrayImageResolution=600 -dMonoImageResolution=1200 > -dColorImageResolution=300 -sOutputFile=vol_iv_gs.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f > vol_iv.pdf > > Here's the error: > > PL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10) > Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. > This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. > **** Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table. > **** The file has been damaged. This may have been caused > **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file. > **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data.
Hi Bill, I'm not sure about the gs side of things, but how on earth did you manage to create a PDF of that size? I assume you used a lot of high-resultion images, which is probably unnecessary, especially since you mentioned a book. Try to scale down the images to 300 dpi. HTH Christoph
