On 12/13/2010 03:20 PM, Ian "Witty" Whitfield wrote: > randy pare wrote.. >> Once again, forgive my intrusion - this stuff is hard to learn. >> Okay, the document I am attempting to create, using scribus, is NOT >> intended for printing. It will be a PDF shared over the web [an >> e-zine]. Until now I have always done my layouts using MS Word and am >> trying to learn DTP software so I can get more creative with my layouts. >> All that being said, I must also add that the graphics I use for my >> zine are all simple web friendly jpegs. When loading them into >> scribus, unlike MS Word, they are reduced to illegible, blurry >> thumbnails. I can only assume this is because the default setting of >> the page/or canvas [to use an art program term] is very high. For >> example, the exact same simple jpegs, when added to an MS Word doc - >> appear larger, are not blurry and can be converted to a PDF for web >> quite simply. Because MS Word doesn't expect the images to be hi rez. >> What I would like to know - is it possible for the page resolution - >> the working area itself - to be lowered to web specs? Or should I be >> searching for other software? I have read instructions about scaling >> images for export etc etc... none of this is helpful if the environ >> they are layed out in is too high a rez to begin with. >> Thank you for your time > > Scribus' PDF is optimized for print shops and it takes pains to ensure > that the printed output will look identical on different printing > presses. The price for this consistency is a _file size_ several times > larger than straight-forward PDF would be. This tip shows a way to > reduce the file size so you can put the PDF file on the Web or even > distribute it by eMail. > > I edit and lay out a Journal that, being mostly distributed via eMail > and on the Web, *must*be as compact as possible. Since the Scribus > options for minimizing the size, (subsetting fonts and downsampling > images), do not meet that requirement, I looked for a route to go > through PostScript and back to PDF that would give better compression, > and the following, from the Scribus Wiki does a surprisingly good job: > > 1. > > Export from Scribus as PDF (1.3 or 1.4), embedding all fonts, no > font subsetting, no image subsampling ? PDF File [6 MB] > > 2. > > Convert to PS using `pdftops -level3' ? PDF File.ps [huge ? over > 50Mb] > [cd to directory > > pdftops -level3 PDF File.pdf File.ps] > > 3. > > Convert back to PDF with 'ps2pdf13 ' and 'Ghostscript' (subsetting > fonts, subsampling images) ? PDF File_compact.pdf [1.5MB]. > [ps2pdf13 File.ps PDF File.pdf] > > Hope this helps for you as well as it does for me. > > Ian Whitfield
I had the same problem, produced a pdf (using scribus) to be printed. Pictures a mix of jpg's and png's. The pdf was around 21MB, embedding all fonts, no subsetting etc... Now this pdf has to be available from a webpage as well. The most efficient way to shrink it that I found was the following: 1. print the Scribus-pdf to a ps-file from Adobe Reader (I work in Ubunto 10.4). I chose custom print, a4 size, no scaling, autorotate and center. This gets rid of the crop marks etc used in the print-version. 2. convert the ps-file back to pdf using ps2pdf -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen This gives a pdf where fonts are subsetted, pictures downsampled etc.. In this particular case the original pdf-file was 21MB, the ps-file generated about 50MB and the final pdf only 280 KB! -- /Anders K ==================================================================== TeXNaT Web: www.texnat.se Anders K?llstr?m Email: anders at texnat.se Arkitektv?gen 6 Tel: +46-(0)18-36 40 29 740 20 V?nge Mobil: 070-225 2286
