On 08/18/2011 10:29 PM, Peter Nermander wrote: > Most of the tips given will not help much, because the main reason > that Scribus PDF becomes big is NOT bitmap images. > > The reason Scribus PDFs become big is that Scribus is very detailed > about the placement of objects, including text. > > If you create a PDF from a word processing program it will most likely > print the text line by line (i.e. it will set coordinates and then > print a whole line of text). > > As I understand it Scribus places text glyph by glyph. For each > character on a line it will set coordiantes and then print the glyph. > For a text with 80 characters per line this more or less makes the > file 80 times bigger (because instead of just placing each line > Scribus will place 80 characters per line). > > The devs may correct me if I'm wrong, maybe this is something that has > improved in later versions? > > /Peter > > ___
Hi, A correct summary of our way of exporting PDF. The focus has been since 0.4 days: make sure it will faithfully reliably reproduce on screen in print. So: Size of the file is of secondary importance to print fidelity - especially when printing in a commercial print environment. Internally Scribus is *extremely* precise. Something like 0.001 mm if I remember correctly. HTH, Peter
