On 06/07/2010 09:40 PM, John Culleton wrote: > On Saturday 05 June 2010 04:47:36 lars hennings wrote: >> Hi, Scribus works very well. A little Photobook 17,5x17,5 cm 112 >> pages, all pages full photographies, makes a PDF-X3 of 993 MB. > The >> images - jpg - makes 540 MB. Only few text, only few frames > and >> groups with names. >> >> It was very slow the last pages but an iBook G4 (OSX 10.4; > scribus >> 1.351) with 750 MB RAM did it. >> >> http://www.blurb.com/books/1400517 >> >> But why the PDF is so big? Shure I set full quality (zip) and 300 >> dpi. Than it is the same to set the quality of compression to > middle >> or maximum. It is both the same 993 MB. May be it differs if not > set >> zip. Hi Lars,
If you look at PDF files, they will literally contain the entire image files, even when only a small area at low resolution might be used. The technique described by John will convert the file to a more "simple" graphic display, thus in effect eliminating the image files. Greg
