Here is an easier way: http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF
I had a newsletter that was 21MB. Following the above instructions, it was reduced to 2.1MB and I could not see any degradation! Good luck. Murray --- On Fri, 9/19/08, Willem (Pim) Borman <wilborm at yahoo.com> wrote: From: Willem (Pim) Borman <[email protected]> Subject: [scribus] Flattening layers? To: "Mailing List Scribus" <scribus at lists.scribus.info> Date: Friday, September 19, 2008, 7:21 PM I use Scribus 1.3.3.11 in Ubuntu Linux (Gutsy Gibbon) on a computer with a AMD Athlon 64 processor. I composed my first newsletter in Scribus following the examples in the tutorial, using two layers for the constant and variable contents. When I exported the final product (8 pages) to PDF I received error warnings. They referred to missing images and such, none of which seemed to be the case. I chose to ignore the warning and the document exported correctly to pdf format. I made sure the images were being reduced to 72 dpi and the output intended for Web/Screen purposes. The file size of the pdf document was about 2.8 MB which seemed to be excessive. I thought it might help to flatten the original document to a single layer before exporting to pdf. That might also resolve the error warnings. QUESTION: How do you flatten multiple layers to a single one? I can't find any ways to do that. If it can't be done I'll lay out the next newsletter issue in a single layer and see if that helps. Willem Borman (wilborm at yahoo.com) _______________________________________________ scribus mailing list scribus at lists.scribus.info http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20080919/cf7db383/attachment.htm>
