[scribus] scribus Digest, Vol 36, Issue 2: document expansion

Margaret and George McIntosh tenbear at myfairpoint.net
Sat Mar 5 01:49:31 CET 2011


On 3 Mar 2011 at 20:22, Murray Strome wrote:

> On Tuesday, March 1, 2011 5:59 AM, "Ron Carter" <rrcwlc at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> 
> Does it seem unreasonable to anyone but me that a Scribus document
> that occupies 2.5 MB should balloon to 52.6 MB as a pdf document?
> What is the typical expansion when preparing pdf's from Scribus?
> Ron
> ------------

I just remembered this study that shows the relationship between image dpi, 
compression quality and PDF size.
http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes
Have a look at it.
George



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