Public bug reported: I am using scribus 1.4.6+dfsg-4build1 on Ubuntu 17.10 (artful). Create a new Scribus document and just insert one JPG compressed picture (Sleeping_hedgehog.jpg in my example). Then export this document as PDF. Use following settings in Image Compression Method:
Compression Method: Automatic Compression Quality: Maximum Unticked Maximum Image Resolution The resulting PDF is multiple times bigger than the original JPG picture: $ du -sh * 23M Example_automatic_high.pdf 23M Example_automatic_maximum.pdf 23M Example_automatic_medium.pdf 2,9M Example_jpeg_maximum.pdf 23M Example_lossless_maximum.pdf 12K Example.sla 2,2M Sleeping hedgehog.jpg I expected that the resulting PDF just embeds the JPG picture without modifying it, but this is not the case. I don't see a way to let Scribus embed all JPG/PNG images unmodified in the PDF. ** Affects: scribus Importance: Unknown Status: Unknown ** Affects: scribus (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Attachment added: "Example.sla" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748634/+attachment/5052522/+files/Example.sla -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1748634 Title: Automatic image compression produces huge PDF files (corverts JPG to bitmap) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/scribus/+bug/1748634/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs