Am 06.09.2010 22:57, schrieb Gregory Pittman: > 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 >
Just thought I'd try that first one, but this is what came out: myfile.pdf: 2660277 myfile.ps: 354513891 myshrunkenfile.pdf: 72428732 That means, the "shrunken" file is actually bigger than the original one. Any idea? Regards Rolf
