On Fri, May 16, 2014 at 8:17 AM, Gregory Pittman <gpittman at iglou.com> wrote:
> 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 > Greg, holy moly, that wiki page is thorough!! Very satisfying level of detail there. Thanks for all the time you spend examining and reporting on such things! /Kunda -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.scribus.net/pipermail/scribus/attachments/20140516/b8f9a957/attachment.html>
