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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'><br><br><div>> To: scribus@lists.scribus.net<br>> From: anders@texnat.se<br>> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 19:06:29 +0100<br>> Subject: Re: [scribus] Pdf file size<br>> <br>> Den 2015-10-30 kl. 18:27, skrev John Beardmore:<br>> > I've produced an environmental report in Scribus 1.5 under windows.<br>> ><br>> > With best resolution pictures the .pdf file is 136 megabytes, and with <br>> > low resolution it's still 11 megabytes.<br>> ><br>> > My clients are having problems uploading these files when making <br>> > funding applications because of their size.<br>> ><br>> > Two questions then...<br>> ><br>> > What type and settings for PDF output is most likely to produce<br>> > compact output ?<br>> ><br>> > And<br>> ><br>> > I seem to recall somebody saying that you could run Scribus<br>> > .pdf files through some tool or other, which made them a lot<br>> > smaller without noticeable loss of quality. Can anybody<br>> > remember which tool this is ? I have access to Linux boxes<br>> > too if needs be.<br>> ><br>> ><br>> > Many thanks, J/.<br>> Hi,<br>> I use scribus under Linux (just now Ubuntu 14.04) and use ghostscript to<br>> reduce the size of pdf-files. I have never tried this in windows but the<br>> following does the trick in linux<br>> <br>> If you want to make the file myfile.pdf smaller and with the name <br>> newfile.pdf try the following command<br>> (if your pdf is for printing)<br>> <br>> gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress <br>> -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=newfile.pdf myfile.pdf<br>> <br>> If the file is for screen viewing use<br>> <br>> gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/screen <br>> -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=newfile.pdf myfile.pdf<br>> <br>> I do this regularly with files to be sent to print and there has never <br>> been any problem<br>> <br>> -- <br>> /Anders K=<br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>I have used ghostscript to reduce PDF files also. I check the sizes of both files afterwards because ghostscript does not always make a smaller file.</div><div><br></div><div>It is probably better to add -c .setpdfwrite in the command line, for example</div><div><br></div><div>gs -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dCompatibilityLevel=1.4 -dPDFSETTINGS=/prepress -dNOPAUSE -dQUIET -dBATCH -sOutputFile=newfile.pdf -c .setpdfwrite -f myfile.pdf</div><div><br></div><div>See <a href="http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/Language.htm#.setpdfwrite" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/Language.htm#.setpdfwrite</a> and <a href="http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2pdf.htm#Limitations" target="_blank" style="font-size: 12pt;">http://ghostscript.com/doc/current/Ps2pdf.htm#Limitations</a></div><div><br></div><div>Regards, William Bader, Director of Research and Development at SCS, http://www.newspapersystems.com</div><div><br></div><div><br></div> </div></body>
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