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Scribus => PDF Generation => Topic started by: raywilk on September 30, 2018, 03:22:16 am
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I'm new to Scribus and Desktop Publishing in general although I'm good with MS Office. I have been creating, quite successfully, a magazine in Scribus but struggle to control the file size when exporting to .PDF
I have been in the habit of printing to a file (Foxit Reader PDF Printer). Can anyone help control the file size with regard to images and text. I've noticed that a page of text in different fonts will produce wildly different file sizes. Is one font better than another regarding this size issue.
Any help would be most appreciated.
Cheers, Ray
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Scribus has been targeted towards printing, where the size of the PDF is less important than the quality of the publication.
Some things to consider are:
- Are you embedding fonts? Fonts can be 10-15 MB each.
- Do you have a lot of vector graphics?
- Do you downsample images? For printing you probably want 300 PPI, but for reading on the screen you can likely get away with 75 PPI.
I think there are several pages in the Scribus Wiki on the topic too.
Some people like to run the PDF through for example Ghostscript to reduce the file size.
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Thanks very much for your reply Nermander. There are some things for me to consider. I have installed Ghostscript but can you please point me in the right direction to check out how to use this to possibly reduce the file size.
Thanks, Ray
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A quick search on the wiki finds this page:
https://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Reduce_the_size_of_Scribus_generated_PDFs