2011/5/2 Simon Cropper <scrop...@botanicusaustralia.com.au>: > On 03/05/11 11:14, Cliff Scott wrote: >> >> ** Reply to message from "Daniel A. Rodriguez" >> <daniel.armando.rodrig...@gmail.com> on Mon, 2 May 2011 15:05:40 -0300 >> >>>> I have been watching this thread and have to ask the obvious question. >>>> Are >>>> the pictures sized to the desired size before inserting into the >>>> document? If >>>> not try that. I have found that can make a huge difference. I know many >>>> people keep pictures in very high resolutions which is fine, but if you >>>> just >>>> put a large picture into the document and resize it there it still takes >>>> up >>>> the full storage size of the original so thus makes very large >>>> documents >>>> which translate into large PDFs. >>> >>> Hi >>> >>> almost all of them are screenshots, but not full screen images just a >>> menu or a bar for instance >> >> Likely they are not too large, but have you looked at their actual sizes >> to >> verify their size? >> > > Hi All, > > I have also been watching this thread with interest. > > For comparison, after much testing and manipulation I have been able to get > quite respectable PDF files which illustrate ~40 high resulotion screen > images. > > The PNG files, which show various tasks, range from 5KB upto 189.6 KB. > > Together they total 2.9 KB. > > These images were created using Shutter using default settings. > > Merged with a relatively small HTML file of 43KB, they merge to a 2MB PDF > (note the PNG are converted to JPG). > > This process is done outside LO but illustrates that image rich files can be > created that can be presented in relatively small PDF. > > Another example, using LO... > > 6.8 MB ODT file with detailed high resolution maps could be compressed to a > 2.6MB PDF file. I could of made the resulting PDF smaller by sacrificing map > quality but decided that this was a good balance between size and image > clarity. > > On a side note - experimentation has shown that tables can cause file bloat > more than some image types. Experiment with empty files to see what gets the > best result. > > When creating technical reports I always insert an image twice as large as > the size they will be presented in the report and allow 60% compression when > creating the PDF. This seems to be a good combination.
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