[Scribus] Slow Rendering PDF exported from scribus

Ow Mun Heng Ow.Mun.Heng
Thu Jul 7 13:32:01 CEST 2005


On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 13:08 +0200, Tobias Hilbricht wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 7. Juli 2005 11:57 schrieb Ow Mun Heng:
> > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 17:50 +0800, Craig Ringer wrote:
> > > Ow Mun Heng wrote:
> > > >If anyone has downloaded the MyOSS Magazine PDF
> > > >(http://mag.my-opensource.org), can I find out you guys also see that
> > > >the page rendering is very slow?
> > >
> > > It seems entirely normal on Acrobat Reader 7 (WinXP) which is what I had
> > > to hand.
> >
> > Compare that PDF to the PDF by mags like freesoftwaremagazine.com or
> > tuxmagazine.com which uses LaTeX & quarkexpress  respectively, it's
> > Slow.
> 
> I had a look at MyOSS Magazine PDF and freesoftwaremagazine.com (done with 
> pdftex), and I think I see with Acrobat Reader 7 what you mean - when you 
> change from page to page, then page rendering of MyOSS takes place in chops 
> and pieces until you have the whole page, while the pages in 
> freesoftwaremagazine.com PDF are build up almost instantaneously and at once.

Yep.. That's what I see.. That's what I meant.

> What options did you choose on export of your Scribus doc to PDF?

PDF 1.3 or PDF 1.4 both has this issue.
Embed All Fonts
Compress Pic etc., Automatic, Medium Quality
Binding : Left Margin
Resolution : 35dpi
Save Linked Text Frames as PDF Articles
Colour : Screen/Web

Thanks for the help. 

with XPDF it works Great and fast but not as nice as it doesn't handle
tranparencies and such. :-)

Thanks again



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