On 09/06/2010 04:04 PM, Rudolf Vavruch wrote: > Submitted on 09/06/2010 > Submitted by anonymous user: [10.1.5.224] > > Submitted values are: > > Name: Rudolf Vavruch > Email Address: vavruch at gmail.com > Subject: Making PDF smaller > Message: > Hi, I'm sending this from the contact form on scribus.net. > > My friends and I are making an online magazine, you can view the first > issue here: exhibitmag.co.za. The second issue is complete but for one > problem - as a PDF it's too big. I've tried various methods of exporting > it but nothing gets it looking good unless it is around 400MB. My friend > took this PDF opened it in Illustrator and when closing it, it asked him > if he wanted to remove superfluous data (or something similar), > bookmarks and other things. It then compressed the file down to 40MB! > But I've noticed one problem, occasionally some of the text is messed up. > > Is there anyway I can compress the generated PDF without dropping image > resolution and keeping all the text as is? > > I am using ScribusNG 1.3.5 - that comes with Linux Mint 8 Helena.
Hi Rudolf, Try these: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Shrinking_a_PDF_from_the_command_line http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF What these involve is conversion to PS then back to PDF. Greg
