On 1 Mar 2011 at 8:59, Ron Carter wrote: > Does it seem unreasonable to anyone but me that a Scribus document > that occupies 2.5 MB should balloon to 52.6 MB as a pdf document? > What is the typical expansion when preparing pdf's from Scribus? > Ron > .The .sla file does not include the images, only links to them. The PDF includes the images. If you have a lot of images and you don't limit the resolution of the images in the pdf, it will be big. The easiest way to make a smaller PDF is to limit the resolution when you create the PDF and use a lower compression quality.
George
