> On Monday 27 July 2009 09:13:53 pm John Beardmore wrote: >> John Culleton wrote: >> > I wept a little. You see I am still a COBOL programmer at >> > heart, and she was Grandma COBOL. >> >> Hmmm... I had a brief infatuation with COBOL in 1984 but if
> While I am at it, I have a file size question. I have a publisher > who limits e-books to 3MB. The rationale is that some purchasers > are still on dial-up. Scribus is notorious for generating great > big pdf's, so much so that I did my e-book referenced below in > pdftex which is pretty economical. Given e.g., a pdf 1.4 or 1.5 > file created by Scribus, with lots of png screen shots and the > like, what is the accepted wisdom for shrinking the file while > retaining the content? > > Thus far I have thought of loading the pdf into Acrobat Reader, > printing to file, and then doing a ps2pdf on that file but that > might make things bigger. Any thoughts? > Hi John, Indeed, file sizes may increase, look at http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Reduce_the_size_of_Scribus_generated_PDFs and install that. It will give you a quick result, one way or the other. -- Owen
