Plinnell wrote: > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 12:43, Sandip Bhattacharya wrote: >> On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 12:16 +0100, Alexander Skwar wrote: >> > Craig Bradney wrote: >> > > On Wednesday 01 December 2004 11:46, Alexander Skwar wrote:
> [ linearize pdf ] > You can use the pdfopt tool from Ghostscript to do this: > > $pdfopt ./input.pdf ./output.pdf > > In my test, this doubled the file size, but it does load much faster. Yes, indeed, it does! Thanks! > 2) There are 10 fonts in the PDF, which is very high for a single page form. Yes. I trimmed that down now. Didn't make a difference, though. > Personally, I would only use the "Base-14" fonts which are included in all > versions of Acrobat. What are those? Helvetica and such? Well, how do I select them? They aren't present in the font drop down boxes. > 3) Acrobat Reader + gtk2 is not a good combo. I tested Acrobat on Windows. > 4) While Scribus can create PDF forms (which is a wonderful and underused > feature IMO), the defaults and most of our testing is directed towards > optimal print output. Hm, okay. > The rave reviews Scribus gets for PDF output shows that > effort. Hey, I did NOT AT ALL want to sound like I think that Scribus isn't great. Quite the contrary: It's an EXCELLENT application! It's astonishing what you guys have done! > It is genuinely commercial grade and in some cases, superior to well > known DTP apps. Well, I don't know many other apps, but it is really a good tool. Yes! Alexander Skwar -- sunset, n.: Pronounced atmospheric scattering of shorter wavelengths, resulting in selective transmission below 650 nanometers with progressively reducing solar elevation. -------------------------------------------------------------------------
