9 Apr
2007
9 Apr
'07
4:49 p.m.
On Mon, Apr 09, 2007 at 05:13:07PM +0100, Tristan Miller wrote:
Greetings.
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.
You might try pdftk. I don't know if it has recompression capabilties, but it's got quite a few capabilities for re-processing PDF files.
http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk/
Bryce