On 05/16/2014 09:10 AM, Wayne DePrince Jr. wrote: > On ven, 2014-05-16 at 09:07 -0400, Gregory Pittman wrote: > >> On 05/16/2014 07:54 AM, Carolien Hofmans wrote: >>> Works like a charm! From 31,2 MB to 4,9 MB! Thank you so much! >>> >> >> This comes about because your images are entered bitwise into the PDF, >> so if you don't restrict the image resolution, you put the whole image >> file in the PDF. >> >> With text, there can be a problem when Scribus must outline the font, in >> which case you are creating graphics out of each individual glyph. > > > this thread is full of all good information as an addendum to that > in the wiki. i am having similar issues and did not think of text as > being a potential cause of the large PDF size. is there a way to avoid > having Scribus outline each glyph? does it depend on the font type? >
Yes it does. Some fonts must be outlined. Some have a licence which does not allow embedding, and so far, many OTF fonts cannot be embedded. back to images: here is a wiki page I made to illustrate the relationship between export parameters, resolution, and file size: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes Greg
