On 09/19/2011 04:35 PM, Andreas H?nnebeck wrote: > Ian "Witty" Whitfield wrote: > >> I VERY happy to report that this problem has been solved!! >> >> Many thanks to Anders in Sweden for the information!! >> >> 1) Save your PDF from Scribus at the settings that you are happy with. >> 2) Run the following script in Konsole... >> "ps2pdf14 filename.pdf newfilename.pdf". >> (NOTE - There must be NO SPACES in the file names!!) >> 3) As a PDF file is a 'special' kind of PS file it can be input to >> 'ps2pdf' with no problems. >> 4) You get a major reduction in file size, (in my case 15Mb to 3Mb!!) >> AND all the 'HotLinks' still work!! > > I tried this using the web version of my biyearly magazine and it did > reduce the size by 58%, but due to a very strong compression rate > of the embedded images. They are much worse now, you can see strong > compression artefacts. I think one could reach the same result in > scribus by choosing 'Low' or 'Minimum' Compression Quality (my original > PDF was created with 'Medium'). > Here's something of a guide to this:
http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes Greg
