Am 22.12.2011 18:52, schrieb Gregory Pittman: > On 12/22/2011 12:26 PM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote: >> Am 22.12.2011 15:06, schrieb Gregory Pittman: >>> >>> I just made a PDF of some vacation photos, for which I had to break up >>> the Scribus document so that I could work with them in Scribus, then >>> used pdftk to join them. The result was a >700MB PDF, in which I saw no >>> problems. >>> >>> Greg >>> >>> >> >> Do you want to make a photobook out of it? That's what I'm trying here. >> But the service I found will only accept up to 300 MB, so I worry a bit. >> How do you send 700 MB? Or do you burn a CD? > > Actually, I did this for a presentation on a large HD TV, and it worked > well. > > If I were going to get it printed, I would have bothered to resize > images, which I'm sure would make it much smaller. > > Greg >
Yes, I did read about this in the Wiki and played around with the settings. The photos I use have "only" 6 Megapixels, ca. 2000 x 3000. I thought they should have 300 dpi at least to appear properly in the print, do you agree? With the first 12 pages, I tried to set "Compress photos to 100 dpi" first, resulting in 15 MB for the PDF. But viewing the resulting PDF with 400 % on screen, I found the photos had too big pixels to be printed sharp. When I say "compress to 300 dpi", the resulting PDF has 44 MB, but the photos appear sharp enough. Or is that on-screen impression misleading? Sizing down each photo which is to appear somewhat smaller before inserting it into Scribus is a lot of painful work, isn't it? Could this be achieved by Scribus itself? (Haven't tried that yet, though there is a dialog which seems to do right that. But when I see that an untouched photo which appears in a smaller size on the page has merely 440 dpi, would it be worth to cut it down to 300 anyway?) In Gimp, I found two dialogs which look like they could do that, but I don't know for sure how they actually work. So I decided to go on with the creative part :-) and layout the pages first and hoped to stay under the 300 MB limit. Regards Rolf (I don't know when you will answer, maybe I'm out here soon, so have a nice Christmas, I'll read afterwards...)
