[scribus] Test PDF 993 MB

[John Culleton]

On Saturday 05 June 2010 04:47:36 lars hennings wrote:
> Hi, Scribus works very well. A little Photobook 17,5x17,5 cm 112
> pages, all pages full photographies, makes a PDF-X3 of 993 MB. 
The
> images - jpg - makes 540 MB. Only few text, only few frames 
and
> groups with names.
>
> It was very slow the last pages but an iBook G4 (OSX 10.4; 
scribus
> 1.351) with 750 MB RAM did it.
>
> http://www.blurb.com/books/1400517
>
> But why the PDF is so big? Shure I set full quality (zip) and 300
> dpi. Than it is the same to set the quality of compression to 
middle
> or maximum. It is both the same 993 MB. May be it differs if not 
set
> zip.
>
> regards
> lars
>
>
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Scribus errs on the side of completeness. I sometimes call a 
Scribus pdf file up in Acrobat reader, print it to file (i.e. create a ps 
file) and then convert it back again using ps2pdf or a similar script.
This will strip down the file in most cases.
-- 
John Culleton
Wexford Press
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95
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