Will also depend on your image compression options. If theres no compression and formats that PDF cannot use internally are used, then they will be converted to large PDF X Objects.
Craig On Friday 17 December 2004 01:36, Rainer Heilke wrote: > Try the "Subset" option in the PDF output window. I've had similar > problems, and this option fixed them when dropping resolutions didn't. > > Rainer Heilke > > Paraplegic Racehorse wrote: > > Scribus 1.2, SuSE 9.1 Pro > > > > I am in the process of creating some PDF documents of several series > > of disparate, but themed, graphics files. I am unable to achieve > > anything resembling reasonable PDF output file size, however. In one > > case, I have somewhat less than one page of text (two fonts, embedded) > > and approximately 12 pages of assorted graphics files. Within my > > filesystem, the combined size of all the graphics is about four MB of > > [mostly] reduced-color-palatte GIF files. The output PDF, however, is > > nearly 20MB! (8.0 x 10.5 pages, 300dpi, reduce images to 300dpi, embed > > two fonts, Acrobat 5.0, generate thumbs, include bookmarks, format for > > printer) > > > > The only thing that immediately comes to mind, concerning how to > > reduce file size is to reduce the resolution, which I am loathe to do. > > Can anyone toss me some pointers? > > > > Incidentally, the first four of the PDFs are available at > > http://homepage.mac.com/charlesreynolds/werldwerks/models/index.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://nashi.altmuehlnet.de/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20041217/33159e12/attachment.pgp
