[scribus] Making PDF smaller

Bo Engborg boengborg at gmail.com
Tue Sep 7 15:31:47 CEST 2010


This seems to be one of the most asked questions. Is it not worth to include
pdf shrinking in Scribus? Not everyone (like myself) will find it easy to
install a couple of extra programs and work at the command line.

- Bo E -


2010/9/7 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com>

> On 09/07/2010 05:39 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:
>
>> Am 06.09.2010 22:57, schrieb Gregory Pittman:
>>
>>> On 09/06/2010 04:04 PM, Rudolf Vavruch wrote:
>>>
>>>> Submitted on 09/06/2010
>>>> Submitted by anonymous user: [10.1.5.224]
>>>>
>>>> Submitted values are:
>>>>
>>>> Name: Rudolf Vavruch
>>>> Email Address: vavruch at gmail.com
>>>> Subject: Making PDF smaller
>>>> Message:
>>>> Hi, I'm sending this from the contact form on scribus.net.
>>>>
>>>> My friends and I are making an online magazine, you can view the first
>>>> issue here: exhibitmag.co.za. The second issue is complete but for one
>>>> problem - as a PDF it's too big. I've tried various methods of exporting
>>>> it but nothing gets it looking good unless it is around 400MB. My friend
>>>> took this PDF opened it in Illustrator and when closing it, it asked him
>>>> if he wanted to remove superfluous data (or something similar),
>>>> bookmarks and other things. It then compressed the file down to 40MB!
>>>> But I've noticed one problem, occasionally some of the text is messed
>>>> up.
>>>>
>>>> Is there anyway I can compress the generated PDF without dropping image
>>>> resolution and keeping all the text as is?
>>>>
>>>> I am using ScribusNG 1.3.5 - that comes with Linux Mint 8 Helena.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Hi Rudolf,
>>>
>>> Try these:
>>>
>>> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Shrinking_a_PDF_from_the_command_line
>>> http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF
>>>
>>> What these involve is conversion to PS then back to PDF.
>>>
>>> Greg
>>>
>>>
>> Just thought I'd try that first one, but this is what came out:
>>
>> myfile.pdf: 2660277
>> myfile.ps: 354513891
>> myshrunkenfile.pdf: 72428732
>>
>> That means, the "shrunken" file is actually bigger than the original one.
>>
>> Any idea?
>>
>
> It means you need to try the other way. I've noticed the same thing
> sometimes -- I think this page needs editing.
>
> Greg
>
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