[scribus] Pdf file size

Gregory Pittman gpittman at iglou.com
Fri Oct 30 19:23:31 UTC 2015


On 10/30/2015 01:27 PM, John Beardmore wrote:
> I've produced an environmental report in Scribus 1.5 under windows.
> 
> With best resolution pictures the .pdf file is 136 megabytes, and with
> low resolution it's still 11 megabytes.
> 
> My clients are having problems uploading these files when making funding
> applications because of their size.
> 
> Two questions then...
> 
>   What type and settings for PDF output is most likely to produce
>   compact output ?
> 
> And
> 
>   I seem to recall somebody saying that you could run Scribus
>   .pdf files through some tool or other, which made them a lot
>   smaller without noticeable loss of quality. Can anybody
>   remember which tool this is ?  I have access to Linux boxes
>   too if needs be.


http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Web_optimised_PDF

http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Reduce_the_size_of_Scribus_generated_PDFs

http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes

Greg




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