<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15510"><span></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15513">Re: Pdf file size</div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15485"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15484"> <div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15486"> <hr size="1" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15651"><font face="Arial" size="2" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15650"><b id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15649">Original Message from John Beardmore</b></font></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15486"><font face="Arial" size="2"><b><br></b></font></div><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15483" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> 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>--------------------------</div><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15483" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" dir="ltr">The Script I use to do the job is a slightly modified version of the Perl script, compress_newsletter.pl, the original for which can be found here: <a href="http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Web_optimised_PDF" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15756">http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Web_optimised_PDF</a></div><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15483" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" dir="ltr">I don't think the original works anymore, but the text file attached to this link:</div><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15483" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" dir="ltr"> <a href="http://forums.scribus.net/index.php?topic=1727.0" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15877">http://forums.scribus.net/index.php?topic=1727.0</a></div><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15483" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" dir="ltr">does work (at least in LINUX). Thanks to a member of the Victoria LINUX Users Group, I now have a modified script which does the major things I asked for, namely remove the .meta file and give an option of replacing the original PDF file instead of creating a new file called {original file name}.new.pdf which I will try to attach to a later E-Mail if I can find it (I am travelling right now and am not certain I have it with me right now) if attachments are permitted when posting to the Scribus list -- I have forgotten whether they are or not.</div><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15483" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" dir="ltr"><br></div><div class="y_msg_container" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15483" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; font-size: 16px;" dir="ltr">Murray</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1446251272404_15483"><br></div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>