[scribus] Three questions and a suggestion

[john Culleton]

On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 14:49:13 +0200
"Ian \"Witty\" Whitfield" <editor at federalsaints.net> wrote:

> Hi All
> 
> I requested help with 'HotLinks' (ie jump to other pages) in Vol 42, 
> Issue 14 of this list.
> 
> At the time I had put this down to my change from Scribus 1.3 series
> to 1.4 series. I have now been looking into this in a bit more depth
> and have discovered that this was ALSO the time I "found" the script
> using 'pstops' and 'ps2pdf' to reduce the size of the "Scribus PDF"
> file. And when I found how well this worked I went back and reduced
> the size of ALL my old publication files!!
> 
> And this - it seems - is the cause of my problem!!! (Apologies to the 
> Scribus Team!!)
> 
> SO - My question now becomes.... Is there any OTHER way to reduce the 
> size of the Scribus PDF file WITHOUT the loss of the HotLinks??
> 
> Greg asked which version of PDF I use - I convert to PDF 1.3.
> 
> Another member suggested it was a loss of Metadata during the
> reduction but don't know about this.
> 
> Any help/suggestions would be appreciated as I really need to get
> this going again in my publication as it 'automates' my content page.
> 
> Thanks a lot guys.
> 
> PS - I also asked about Aspel not finding errors but got no replies - 
> any ideas please???!!!
> 
> Ian Whitfield
> Pretoria
> 
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