<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Had the same problem. I did not want to sacrifice the image quality so I saved the PDF in small chunks of about 6 pages each (each page had 4-7 pictures on it). Then sent the multiple files to the printer so it would not take him too long to open. A bit tedious, but the only way I could find to keep the high image quality I was looking for.<BR><BR>--- On <B>Tue, 3/1/11, Margaret and George McIntosh <I><tenbear@myfairpoint.net></I></B> wrote:<BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE style="BORDER-LEFT: rgb(16,16,255) 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><BR>From: Margaret and George McIntosh <tenbear@myfairpoint.net><BR>Subject: Re: [scribus] (no subject)<BR>To: "Scribus User Mailing List" <scribus@lists.scribus.info><BR>Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, 2:18 PM<BR><BR>
<DIV class=plainMail>On 1 Mar 2011 at 8:59, Ron Carter wrote:<BR><BR>> Does it seem unreasonable to anyone but me that a Scribus document<BR>> that occupies 2.5 MB should balloon to 52.6 MB as a pdf document?<BR>> What is the typical expansion when preparing pdf's from Scribus?<BR>> Ron<BR>> <BR>.The .sla file does not include the images, only links to them. The PDF includes the <BR>images. If you have a lot of images and you don't limit the resolution of the images in <BR>the pdf, it will be big. The easiest way to make a smaller PDF is to limit the <BR>resolution when you create the PDF and use a lower compression quality.<BR><BR>George<BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>scribus mailing list<BR><A href="http://us.mc828.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=scribus@lists.scribus.info" ymailto="mailto:scribus@lists.scribus.info">scribus@lists.scribus.info</A><BR>Use <A href="http://lists.scribus.info/mailman/listinfo/scribus"
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