On Saturday 23 January 2010 07:03:11 Ian Whitfield wrote: > Hi Peter > > I have just started using Scribus and love it!!! Have put out my first > publication using this this January and am rather pleased with what I > have done, but still learning!! For the past 5 years I was just using OO > Writer. > > My one complaint is the size of the PDF file - 5.5Mb in my case for a 25 > page publication. > > I just joined the List and found your discussion with Greg on this > subject. I had found and tried the command line method to convert to PS > and then back to PDF. The PS file came in at 20Mb but the new PDF file > is 136Mb and takes about a minute to open each page. Reading your advise > I tried Acroread but no difference. > > So I tried your 'full' method - open original in Acroread and print to > file. That works but when I run the conversion command it takes a while > to exit and gives me just ONE blank page!!!!! > > Any thoughts on this.... all I need is to reduce the file size by about > half - otherwise the graphics suffer!! > > Your help would be appreciated. > > Ian > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
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