Hello Christoph-- I did not know about pdftk. Based on your suggestion, I downloaded it and tried merging two smaller pdf pieces and it worked very well. Many thanks for the workaround!
Bill On Aug 19, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Christoph Sch?fer wrote: > 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
