[scribus] Re Smaller file sizes?

[John Culleton]

On Friday 12 September 2008 10:52:51 am Julian Robbins wrote:
> How can I produce a reasonable looking 2 page (A4) PDF file that is
> less
>
> > than 1 Mb?
> >
> > I have done everything in the export to PDF to get the file size
> > down (resample to 72 DPI etc).
> > How do the competition manage such small file sizes?
>
> I have this problem a lot with datasheets I produce.
>
> I recommend using this script
> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF that someone
> came up with that is excellent for two reasons :
>
> 1: It uses ghostscript and postscript to completely reform the PDF,
> resulting in far, far smaller PDF's without losing image
> resolution. Scribus devs have always said that the way Scribus
> produces PDF's is compliant but not good at small file size. This
> gets around it. I have compressed PDF's by 10 times without any
> loss of image quality with changing image DPI.
>
> 2: The way that Scribus produces PDF's also does not form proper
> readable, indexable plain text. Go to Adobe Reader and try save as
> text, and see what happens. If indexation of text is important to
> you, then the script reforms the PDF so the file is completely
> indexable - great for web PDF's, and for Google to index it too.
>
> The only issues I have noticed is :-
>
> Stick with PDF1.4/1.5 format for export, PDF1.6 seems to give
> blurry text. Dont know why. If you use images with transparent
> sections, ie pngs. then the transparency isnt respected, and you
> will get a black area where it should be clear.
>
> Good luck
>
> Julian

I tested this script and depending on the degree of compression 
already applied I got reductions of 2x on one sample and about 5x on 
another.  So I will switch my e-book project back to Scribus and see 
what happens. 

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