On Thu, 4 Jun 2015 07:29:15 +0200 Peter Nermander <peter at nermander.se> wrote:
> I am teaching Scribus to several people, most > of whom use Microsoft > > Windows. In my own experience over the years, > > I have found that the PDF files created by > > Scribus are very large. I > > > > There are valid reason for the size. I have a book project where only the chapter heads and a few graphics are from Scribus. There are entire pages represented as graphic pdfs that are the real culprit. Still the problem of an oversized final pdf file exists. My internet provider (Comcast.net) has a limit for the size of an attachment to an email. My final file is too large, just as if I used Scribus for everything so my solution may be of interest. I use a script tailored to my project that breaks the final pdf into segments: --------------------------------------------- pdftk B=book.pdf cat B1-100 output booka.pdf pdftk B=book.pdf cat B101-140 output bookb.pdf pdftk B=book.pdf cat B141-end output bookc.pdf ----------------------------------------------- I send the three chunks to my customer attached to three different emails. when I get to the "final final" I may have to send him a thumb drive or a cdrom by snail mail. I use Linux, but pdftk is available to Windows users. -- John Culleton Wexford Press Book layout, typesetting and Indexing Free list of books for self-publishers: http://wexfordpress.net/shortlist.html
