2011/3/1 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com> > On 03/01/2011 10:06 AM, Ron Carter wrote: > >> I?m preparing a submission to a POD publisher who has a size limit on >> the initial MS, i.e. prior to acceptance for publication. Beyond >> that, I don?t care about the size. Windows 7 - Scribus 1.3.3.14 >> I am very new at Scribus and no nothing about scripts or wiki or >> layers but I will muddle through (as always). Thank you all, Louis, >> George, a.l.e. for your suggestions >> > > If you look at this wiki page: > > > http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes > > you can get a sense of how changing some settings in Scribus or > manipulating the images can variably reduce file size of the PDF. > > Especially with a large document containing many images, you should be > using the lowest DPI resolution that makes sense for your purpose. > Typically, 150 to 300 DPI is good enough. Using a tiny part of a very large > image will load this entire image into the PDF, so cropping before you use > the image can be a huge savings. >
This naturally brings me to the idea of a script that would do that, when the user is ready, crop the image to the frame + 1 pixel to avoid accidental white gap between a framed image frame. Is this feasible? What's the best way to do this, a python script or hard coded into the application? Louis > > Greg > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > Use http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus to unsubscribe or > edit your options. > Scribus Forums are available at http://forums.scribus.net > Notice: mailing lists will be migrated to a new host soon. > There may be downtime. Please use forums if the list is not available. > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110301/77bd16a2/attachment.htm>
