Am Freitag, 20. August 2010, 00:42:17 schrieb Bill Wheaton: > Hi Christoph-- Thanks for the reply. > > The original input files are, in total, about 500MB. They are jpegs. There > are about 150 of them. One per page. There's no text, just 1 photo per > page. In scribus, I set the the resolution of every photo to about > 300dpi. Scribus properties for each image shows Actual X-DPI and Actual > Y-DPI of 300 to 330 depending on the photo. > > I figure gs will resample down to 300, so I wasn't too worried about the > 330dpi. I do not know why Scribus makes a 2GB PDF file. > > If there is another way that I should be specifying 300dpi for each image > in Scribus, please let me know. > > I'm exporting to PDF 1.5 (Acrobat 6). I've tried setting colors for > Screen/Web and Printer. The Printer option makes even larger PDF files > (about 2.5GB as compared to 2GB for screen/web). > > Bill > > On Aug 19, 2010, at 4:50 PM, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 19. August 2010, 13:54:30 schrieb Bill Wheaton: > >> Hello List: I'm a new user to Scribus. Have been using it to lay out a > >> photo book and I have some file size issues. > >> > >> I need to output the book to pdf to upload to the printing service. > >> Since the pdf is so huge, there's a tip on the printer's (viovio.com) > >> website suggesting that ghostscript be used to knock down the file size > >> to make it more manageable. This all works fine until the size of the > >> scribus-generated PDF file gets larger than 2GB. At that point the > >> ghostscript pass-through fails. It happens consistently when the PDF is > >> bigger than 2GB and never happens if the PDF is less than 2GB. > >> > >> I'm not sure whether the problem is with the PDF or with ghostscript, so > >> I'm looking for help/troubleshooting advice. If no one can identify a > >> problem on the Scribus end, then I'll send inquiries to the ghostscript > >> crowd next. > >> > >> The ghostscript command will knock a 1.9GB PDF file generated by Scribus > >> down to less than 300MB which is very helpful. But any PDF bigger than > >> 2GB fails when passed through ghostscript > >> > >> Here's the setup: > >> Mac OS 10.6.2 > >> Scribus 1.3.6 > >> Ghostscript 8.71 > >> > >> Here's the ghostscript command: > >> gs-8.71-macosx -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dSAFER -dCompatibilityLevel=1.5 > >> -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -sstdout=%stderr > >> -dGrayImageResolution=600 -dMonoImageResolution=1200 > >> -dColorImageResolution=300 -sOutputFile=vol_iv_gs.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f > >> vol_iv.pdf > >> > >> Here's the error: > >> > >> PL Ghostscript 8.71 (2010-02-10) > >> Copyright (C) 2010 Artifex Software, Inc. All rights reserved. > >> This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. > >> > >> **** Warning: An error occurred while reading an XREF table. > >> **** The file has been damaged. This may have been caused > >> **** by a problem while converting or transfering the file. > >> **** Ghostscript will attempt to recover the data. > > > > Hi Bill, > > > > I'm not sure about the gs side of things, but how on earth did you manage > > to create a PDF of that size? I assume you used a lot of high-resultion > > images, which is probably unnecessary, especially since you mentioned a > > book. Try to scale down the images to 300 dpi. > > > > HTH > > > > Christoph
Hi Bill, Please try the following: Export from your source file to several smaller PDF files (e.g., 1--30, 31--60 etc.). Then shrink each file with gs and join the resulting files with pdftk. Christoph
