And you set the "Maximum Image Resolution" to 300 dpi in the "pdf Export" window?
See: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/672313/scribus.png On Thu, 19 Aug 2010 18:42:17 -0400 Bill Wheaton <gisgeek at nc.rr.com> wrote: > Hi Christoph-- Thanks for the reply. > > The original input files are, in total, about 500MB. They are jpegs. There > are about 150 of them. One per page. There's no text, just 1 photo per > page. In scribus, I set the the resolution of every photo to about 300dpi. > Scribus properties for each image shows Actual X-DPI and Actual Y-DPI of 300 > to 330 depending on the photo. > > I figure gs will resample down to 300, so I wasn't too worried about the > 330dpi. I do not know why Scribus makes a 2GB PDF file. > > If there is another way that I should be specifying 300dpi for each image in > Scribus, please let me know. > > I'm exporting to PDF 1.5 (Acrobat 6). I've tried setting colors for > Screen/Web and Printer. The Printer option makes even larger PDF files > (about 2.5GB as compared to 2GB for screen/web). > > Bill > > -- Larry Levesque KA1VGM
