On Friday 19 November 2010 02:28:42 S C ribus wrote: > > Whether it should be included in Scribus itself is another > > matter. It > > doesnt have to be, but for Windows users in particular, > > running scripts > > is pretty alien, and installing psutils etc, and amending > > the script not > > an easy job. So an inbuilt mean to compress PDF files may > > be useful in > > that context as an option ... > > I tend to agree with this view. In particular commercial DTP > (InDesign from my own experience) can be quite clever there, its > preset profiles and options are really efficient. I remember doing > the same document on InDesign and Scribus and choosing similar > export to PDF options and InDesign was achieving a much lower file > size (sorry no specifics that I can remember, this was a long long > while ago). Being on windoze I would also very much appreciate > inbuilt PDF size optimization. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > scribus mailing list > scribus at lists.scribus.info > http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus
Although the range of preinstalled *nix utilities is absent the command line is available to windoze users. I encourage everyone to kick off the training wheels and learn to use it, even in MSWin. But as I previously stated pdf compression integral with Scribus is a worthy addition. -- John Culleton, Wexford Press "Create Book Covers with Scribus" $5.95 at http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html Free eps format barcode: http://www.tux.org/~milgram/bookland/
