This seems to be one of the most asked questions. Is it not worth to include pdf shrinking in Scribus? Not everyone (like myself) will find it easy to install a couple of extra programs and work at the command line.
- Bo E - 2010/9/7 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> > On 09/07/2010 05:39 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: > >> 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? >> > > It means you need to try the other way. I've noticed the same thing > sometimes -- I think this page needs editing. > > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20100907/c0a994af/attachment.htm>
