<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 2:23 PM, Gregory Pittman <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:gpittman@iglou.com" target="_blank">gpittman@iglou.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class="">On 10/30/2015 01:27 PM, John Beardmore wrote:<br>
> I've produced an environmental report in Scribus 1.5 under windows.<br>
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> With best resolution pictures the .pdf file is 136 megabytes, and with<br>
> low resolution it's still 11 megabytes.<br>
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> My clients are having problems uploading these files when making funding<br>
> applications because of their size.<br>
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> Two questions then...<br>
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> What type and settings for PDF output is most likely to produce<br>
> compact output ?<br>
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> And<br>
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> 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>
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</span><a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Web_optimised_PDF" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Web_optimised_PDF</a><br>
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<a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Reduce_the_size_of_Scribus_generated_PDFs" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Reduce_the_size_of_Scribus_generated_PDFs</a><br>
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<a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Image_DPI_and_Scaling,_and_Resultant_File_Sizes</a><br>
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Greg</blockquote><div><br></div><div>Bringing this thread back to topic (and appropriate email subject)...I have a question.</div><div>Would it be interesting and possible, once we get QML/QtQuick2 working, to have plugins that integrate some of these CLI pdf tools and call them within Scribus? </div><div><br></div><div>Of course I want to be mindful of the fact that we don't want to create more code to maintain and upkeep. That's why I'm thinking of a solution that would just be a GUI wrapper around said 3rd party CLI PDF tool. Sort of how there are GUIs for ffmpeg and such...</div><div><br></div><div>Thoughts?</div><div><br></div><div>/Kunda</div></div></div></div>