James Knott wrote:
Richard Detwiler wrote:
ODF already compresses documents.
I've found that documents that contain a lot of pictures (like a
newsletter I edit for a local club) can get quite large in file size.
When converting such a document to pdf, depending on the settings
that are chosen in the pdf export, a pdf file that is quite a bit
smaller than the .odt file is possible, while maintaining reasonable
image quality.
Now you're getting into the area of trade offs. Many image formats
are already compressed. With PDFs you're trading image quality for
smaller file size. Since the OP is sending photos, he might be
concerned about image quality.
I totally agree; there are certainly trade offs between file size and
image quality.
I'm also concerned about image quality for the pdf's that I create, as
they are put on our club's web site for people to view. I always
scrutinize the image quality of the pdf I create to make sure it still
looks decent when viewed on a screen. I'll even blow it up to 200% or so
to see things that might not be apparent at 100%.
My general experience is that a pdf can be created that is quite a bit
smaller than the .odt file with perfectly acceptable image quality for
on-screen viewing (which I think is what the OP needed).
I also send a pdf to a printing firm, in which case I use very a high
quality (thus large size) pdf process, which gives a file size roughly
equivalent to the original .odt file.
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