On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:22 PM, Murray Strome <wmstrome at yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Tuesday, March 1, 2011 5:59 AM, "Ron Carter" <rrcwlc at gmail.com> wrote: > > Does it seem unreasonable to anyone but me that a Scribus document > that occupies 2.5 MB should balloon to 52.6 MB as a pdf document? > What is the typical expansion when preparing pdf's from Scribus? > Ron > ------------ > I am not certain about whether it is "reasonable" or not. People have given > excellent explanations as to why this is the case. However, I have found > that the script included in the following link does an excellent job of > compressing the PDF file to a reasonable size: > > http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Web_optimised_PDF > > I routinely use this script whenever I create a PDF document with Scribus. > I find that the resulting compressed document is smaller by more than a > factor of ten, and I have been unable to detect any degradation in the > quality of the resulting compressed PDF. > > I hope that this helps you. > The script definitely helped me! Upon seeing it, I tried to reduce the size of my latest issue which resulted in a 1.5 Gig pdf file. After running your script, I got a much more manageable 35 MEG file. Of course, as stated in an earlier email in another thread, I sent the printer the larger file and will continue to do so. But since I have no desire to recreate from scratch the entire issue as a smaller pdf, I'll continue to use your script. I'm an Ubuntu 10.10 user. Thanks, so much. -- John Ghormley KJ4UFG Editor, SERA *Repeater Journal* Walkertown, NC 27051 editor at sera.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.info/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20110304/626628b2/attachment.htm>
