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.<div><br>
</div><div>- Bo E -</div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2010/9/7 Gregory Pittman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gregp_ky@yahoo.com">gregp_ky@yahoo.com</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div></div><div class="h5">On 09/07/2010 05:39 AM, Rolf-Werner Eilert wrote:<br>
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Am 06.09.2010 22:57, schrieb Gregory Pittman:<br>
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On 09/06/2010 04:04 PM, Rudolf Vavruch wrote:<br>
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Submitted on 09/06/2010<br>
Submitted by anonymous user: [10.1.5.224]<br>
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Submitted values are:<br>
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Name: Rudolf Vavruch<br>
Email Address: <a href="mailto:vavruch@gmail.com" target="_blank">vavruch@gmail.com</a><br>
Subject: Making PDF smaller<br>
Message:<br>
Hi, I'm sending this from the contact form on <a href="http://scribus.net" target="_blank">scribus.net</a>.<br>
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My friends and I are making an online magazine, you can view the first<br>
issue here: <a href="http://exhibitmag.co.za" target="_blank">exhibitmag.co.za</a>. The second issue is complete but for one<br>
problem - as a PDF it's too big. I've tried various methods of exporting<br>
it but nothing gets it looking good unless it is around 400MB. My friend<br>
took this PDF opened it in Illustrator and when closing it, it asked him<br>
if he wanted to remove superfluous data (or something similar),<br>
bookmarks and other things. It then compressed the file down to 40MB!<br>
But I've noticed one problem, occasionally some of the text is messed<br>
up.<br>
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Is there anyway I can compress the generated PDF without dropping image<br>
resolution and keeping all the text as is?<br>
<br>
I am using ScribusNG 1.3.5 - that comes with Linux Mint 8 Helena.<br>
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Hi Rudolf,<br>
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Try these:<br>
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<a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Shrinking_a_PDF_from_the_command_line" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Shrinking_a_PDF_from_the_command_line</a><br>
<a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net/index.php/Web_optimised_PDF</a><br>
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What these involve is conversion to PS then back to PDF.<br>
<br>
Greg<br>
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Just thought I'd try that first one, but this is what came out:<br>
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myfile.pdf: 2660277<br>
<a href="http://myfile.ps" target="_blank">myfile.ps</a>: 354513891<br>
myshrunkenfile.pdf: 72428732<br>
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That means, the "shrunken" file is actually bigger than the original one.<br>
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Any idea?<br>
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It means you need to try the other way. I've noticed the same thing sometimes -- I think this page needs editing.<br>
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Greg<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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