Compressing Scribus PDF files

Before…

The PDF file as written by Scribus is ~ 2.8 MB big. Acroread 7 displays it like this:

Acroread's view of two-page spread before compression

…and After

After using pdftops -level3 to convert it to PostScript, and then ghostscript (≥ 8.15) to distill back to PDF, the file is ~ 500kB and is rendered like this:

Acroread's view of two-page spread after compression

Note: xpdf displays the two files identically (and fine); ghostview hangs while trying to antialias the first file, but shows the compressed one fine.


Created 27-Jan-2006 by Wolfgang Dobler
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