Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-29 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Yes I think you are right. python-imaging is the package mac os x uses to resize images and pdf. Thanks! -- Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:34:53AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Sounds good to me, but I'm no image guru. The only reason I asked was because in Mac OS X, when you click Save As.. under the Preview application (which is a PDF/Image viewer), there is a Reduce file size... menu

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
IIUC, a pdf made out of an image will just be some kind of wrapper around the image (assuming you haven't first converted the image to text via OCR). How big was the original .png? You should probably resize that rather than the enclosing .pdf. Why do you even want to convert the png to

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:15:46 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IIUC, a pdf made out of an image will just be some kind of wrapper around the image (assuming you haven't first converted the image to text via OCR). How big was the original .png? You should probably resize

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Sounds good to me, but I'm no image guru. The only reason I asked was because in Mac OS X, when you click Save As.. under the Preview application (which is a PDF/Image viewer), there is a Reduce file size... menu item that drastically reduces pdf file sizes. If I am not mistaken it calls

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-24 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/24/2007 12:37 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: [...] However, the pdf file sizes were around 1.6MB each. At this point, I I couldn't figure out how to reduce the file size. I searched the aptitude repositories and google but I couldn't find a proper solution. [...] I know that PDF supports

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-24 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 00:34:53 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sounds good to me, but I'm no image guru. The only reason I asked was because in Mac OS X, when you click Save As.. under the Preview application (which is a PDF/Image viewer), there is a Reduce file

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-24 Thread Wei Wang
What kind of pictures do you have? Are they complex scene like pictures or simple pattern based chart? You could try to convert them to JPG by using low compression ratio and decrease resolution if possible. In addition, it would be better you import those pictures into OOo Writer and then export

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-24 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/24/2007 09:49 AM, Wei Wang wrote: What kind of pictures do you have? Are they complex scene like pictures or simple pattern based chart? You could try to convert them to JPG by using low compression ratio and decrease resolution if possible. In addition, it would be better you import

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-24 Thread KS
Wei Wang wrote: What kind of pictures do you have? Are they complex scene like pictures or simple pattern based chart? You could try to convert them to JPG by using low compression ratio and decrease resolution if possible. In addition, it would be better you import those pictures into OOo

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:08:26PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: On 09/24/2007 09:49 AM, Wei Wang wrote: What kind of pictures do you have? Are they complex scene like pictures or simple pattern based chart? You could try to convert them to JPG by using low compression ratio and decrease

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 10:37:10PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, I am currently using Etch and I'm loving it! Today I had to scan several documents from a Windows machine (not a good experience). The output files were of png format. I then transferred these files into

Scaling images in docs [was Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?]

2007-09-24 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/24/2007 03:14 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: wandering OT here, but use convert to resize the pictures so that they are the proper size. Then they don't need to be resized within the document. A 1mb image is pretty big at its native resolution, the object is to get it sized so that no

Re: Scaling images in docs [was Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?]

2007-09-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:11:01PM -0400, Ralph Katz wrote: On 09/24/2007 03:14 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: wandering OT here, but use convert to resize the pictures so that they are the proper size. Then they don't need to be resized within the document. A 1mb image is pretty big at

Re: Scaling images in docs [was Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?]

2007-09-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:19:08PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Hi Andrew -- Of course you're correct about $ convert, but let me tell you... Not wanting to re-do her work (if you're married, you'll catch my drift), taking a quick screen shot and posting the whole page as a 125

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Thank you for taking the time to reply. After having read most of the current thread, you did this: windows program: a document-scanner-png linux program: png-pdf Yes that is correct what types of documents are you scanning? are they 'art pictures' or 'drawings' or are they 'written

How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-23 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I am currently using Etch and I'm loving it! Today I had to scan several documents from a Windows machine (not a good experience). The output files were of png format. I then transferred these files into Debian and used ImageMagick's convert utility to convert the png images into

Re: How to reduce pdf file size with open source software?

2007-09-23 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 23 Sep 2007 22:37:10 -0700 Amit Uttamchandani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey guys, I am currently using Etch and I'm loving it! Today I had to scan several documents from a Windows machine (not a good experience). The output files were of png format. I then transferred these