And what about printing to pdf? In PDFCreator I believe you can set compression ratios and the like? So no "export" to it, just PRINT to PDF?
PDFCreator is available from sourceforge.net, although I'm not sure if it is for non-WIN platforms.
-----Original Message----- From: inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net [mailto:inkscape-user-bounces@lists.sourceforge.net] On Behalf Of Tristan Miller Sent: 9. april 2007 22:25 To: inkscape-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Inkscape-user] JPEG-compress embedded images in PDF
Greetings.
In article <20662484.du6kY4JJE0@...2170...>, Tristan Miller wrote:
The PDF files generated by Inkscape are unacceptably large when the document contains bitmap graphics. (An A5 book cover I just did is over 33 megabytes -- far too large to publish online.) I presume this is because Inkscape is embedding raw bitmaps into the PDF file, rather than using JPEG compression.
Is there a tool which will postprocess a PDF file to convert the embedded bitmaps to embedded JPEGs? I would prefer something free (GPL or the like) and available for GNU/Linux.
I just discovered a tool which does what I want: PStill http://www.pstill.com/. It is available for several platforms in command-line and GUI versions, though it is not free software.
I still think that there must be some way of doing this with Ghostscript, but I haven't as yet figured it out.
Regards, Tristan