On Sun, Jul 8, 2012 at 5:04 PM, john Culleton <John at wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> The png files are big because they are not lossy. But it is > possible to compress them when they are created. The issue is not with the source images, but rather what Scribus does with them. The original 1 bit TIFF is ~550 KB. The converted 1 bit PNG is ~470 KB. Note that the PNG is actually smaller. When exported from Scribus: PDF size with TIFF: 11 MB. PDF size with PNG: 21 MB. What could be the cause of this massive difference in size?
