<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div>Today's Topics:<br><br> 1. Re: Scribus for patching pdf file-another problem.<br> (john Culleton)<br>On Mon, 4 Nov 2013 18:53:31 -0500<br>john Culleton <<a href="mailto:John@wexfordpress.com">John@wexfordpress.com</a>> wrote:<br><br>The good news -- I created a pdf file that looks fine on the<br>screen. The bad news: it is huge (12,687,015 bytes). Since this<br>is a B/W document is there a way to set Scribus to produce a pdf<br>with no color at all? That might reduce the size somewhat. I<br>tried pdf2ps followed by ps2pdf but that made it bigger. At this<br>time the document can be uploaded but not downloaded. <br><br>As part of my update process I used pdftk to separate and then<br>after modification reunite the pages. Manipulating the whole
pdf<br>file in Scribus 1.5.0 caused Scribus to stall at some point. <br><br>-- <br>John Culleton</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">I routinely use the Python Script given on this website to reduce the size of my PDF files. Typically, the reduction is a factor of 10-20 or even more. I have been unable to see any degradation in the publications that I have printed as a result of using the script. <br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style:
normal;">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Web_optimised_PDF</div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 16px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;">Murray<br></div></div></body></html>