Hi Ian, On 09/17/2011 06:07 PM, Ian "Witty" Whitfield wrote: > On 17/09/2011 16:34, John Culleton wrote: >> If your document is intended for web reading then setting up Scribus >> that way will significantly reduce the file size. > Thanks John but what way are you talking about?? (Maybe Jan's post but > his comes AFTER yours??) > > I produce using Scribus 1.4.0 RC5, My number of pages are between 30 and > 50 each month with photos, and it is A4 size in colour. My 'Max Image > Resolution' is set to 100dpi and my Compression Method is set to > 'Automatic' and Quality to 'Maximum'. > > Last month's issue came out at around 30Mb - after the 'pdftops' & > 'ps2pdf' conversion the file size was just under 3Mb!! This is what is > available for the Members to download from my Server. (Many of the > Members are in Africa where Bandwith is a problem and Net speed dismal!!) >
Do you change your images (photos) before you insert them in the document? I use gimp to edit and scale the images to 300dpi and also to the size of the frames used in scribus. I save them as .tif. Probably this reduces the size of your output pdf file too. Jan
