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Craig Bradney cbradney at zip.com.au
Tue Mar 1 18:15:15 CET 2011


On 3/1/11 5:00 PM, Louis Desjardins wrote:
> 2011/3/1 Gregory Pittman <gregp_ky at yahoo.com>
>
>> On 03/01/2011 10:06 AM, Ron Carter wrote:
>>
>>>  I’m preparing a submission to a POD publisher who has a size limit on
>>> the initial MS, i.e.  prior to acceptance for publication.  Beyond
>>> that, I don’t care about the size.  Windows 7  -  Scribus 1.3.3.14
>>> I am very new at Scribus and no nothing about scripts or wiki or
>>> layers but I will muddle through (as always).  Thank you all, Louis,
>>> George, a.l.e. for your suggestions
>>>
>> If you look at this wiki page:
>>
>>
>> http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes
>>
>> you can get a sense of how changing some settings in Scribus or
>> manipulating the images can variably reduce file size of the PDF.
>>
>> Especially with a large document containing many images, you should be
>> using the lowest DPI resolution that makes sense for your purpose.
>> Typically, 150 to 300 DPI is good enough. Using a tiny part of a very large
>> image will load this entire image into the PDF, so cropping before you use
>> the image can be a huge savings.
>>
> This naturally brings me to the idea of a script that would do that, when
> the user is ready, crop the image to the frame + 1 pixel to avoid accidental
> white gap between a framed image frame. Is this feasible? What's the best
> way to do this, a python script or hard coded into the application?
>
> Louis
>

Not sure where my mail from my phone went. It should be an option on PDF
export, hard coded into the export process, and definitely not a script.
There are a number of issues that need to be considered like how many
times any one particular image is used in a document etc.

FWIW, I asked about this on 19/9/2003 around when 1.1.1 was released. We
have a bug for it too.

Franz, Jean, someone else.. can you please implement this?

Craig

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