Saving as PDF creates a very large file
Hello,
I have a brochure in an svg file.
I tried to save it as PDF using inkscape 0.46 on Linux Kubuntu.
But the PDF file size is in the megabytes... when my svg file is very small.
How come it gets to big in PDF..?
What can I do to have a normal size PDF file..?
Cheers
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Stephane Eybert <mittiprovence@...328...> wrote:
But the PDF file size is in the megabytes... when my svg file is very small.
It is impossible to answer your question unless you provide the source svg.
Sorry, I think some of my replies got lost. I probably replied to the no-reply@ email address...
Anyway, the new versions of the svg file, the one with the replaced fonts, is here
http://www.thalasoft.com/brochure_en_new_font.svg
and its pdf is here
http://www.thalasoft.com/brochure_en_new_font.pdf
Thanks!
bulia byak wrote:
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 5:47 AM, Stephane Eybert <mittiprovence@...328...> wrote:
But the PDF file size is in the megabytes... when my svg file is very small.
It is impossible to answer your question unless you provide the source svg.
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Stephane Eybert wrote:
Sorry, I think some of my replies got lost. I probably replied to the no-reply@ email address...
Anyway, the new versions of the svg file, the one with the replaced fonts, is here
http://www.thalasoft.com/brochure_en_new_font.svg
and its pdf is here
http://www.thalasoft.com/brochure_en_new_font.pdf
Thanks!
I opened your PDF file in Adobe Reader, selected the File->Properties menu. On the Description tab I can see the PDF was created with Inkscape 0.45.1. If you create the PDF with Inkscape 0.46 and ensure you have a 1.6.0 or later version of the cairo library installed, you will get a much smaller PDF. I created a 128KB PDF from your SVG.
Thanks Adrian! I'll try that!
Adrian Johnson wrote:
Stephane Eybert wrote:
Sorry, I think some of my replies got lost. I probably replied to the no-reply@ email address...
Anyway, the new versions of the svg file, the one with the replaced fonts, is here
http://www.thalasoft.com/brochure_en_new_font.svg
and its pdf is here
http://www.thalasoft.com/brochure_en_new_font.pdf
Thanks!
I opened your PDF file in Adobe Reader, selected the File->Properties menu. On the Description tab I can see the PDF was created with Inkscape 0.45.1. If you create the PDF with Inkscape 0.46 and ensure you have a 1.6.0 or later version of the cairo library installed, you will get a much smaller PDF. I created a 128KB PDF from your SVG.
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Stephane Eybert wrote:
...the PDF file size is in the megabytes... when my svg file is very small.
The pdf export is not perfect, but I believe that some of the problem is with the PDF format itself. Your document probably has blurs, or gradients or similar features that are unsupported by PDF and therefore have to be rendered using bitmaps.
Rygle.
There are some blurs around two short sentences. But even before I put these blurs, the pdf file was already very large.
I don't think there is gradient, not that I know at least :-) I'm a beginner.
Here is the link to the svg file:
http://www.thalasoft.com/brochure_en.svg
For now it is a bit useless for I can't send it in pdf.
Hope someone will figure out why it's so large.
Cheers!
rygle wrote:
Stephane Eybert wrote:
...the PDF file size is in the megabytes... when my svg file is very small.
The pdf export is not perfect, but I believe that some of the problem is with the PDF format itself. Your document probably has blurs, or gradients or similar features that are unsupported by PDF and therefore have to be rendered using bitmaps.
Rygle.
I think it is the fonts you are using with the default convert font to path export.
Curlz http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/agfa/curlz-mt/ and Maiandra http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/galapagos/maiandra/gd/
aren't on most systems (on mine your svg files render as ariel).
The font has a lot of information in the letters that has to be rendered out, hence the large file size...
-Rob A>
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 12:34 PM, Stephane Eybert <mittiprovence@...328...> wrote:
There are some blurs around two short sentences. But even before I put these blurs, the pdf file was already very large.
I don't think there is gradient, not that I know at least :-) I'm a beginner.
Here is the link to the svg file:
http://www.thalasoft.com/brochure_en.svg
For now it is a bit useless for I can't send it in pdf.
Hope someone will figure out why it's so large.
Cheers!
rygle wrote:
Stephane Eybert wrote:
...the PDF file size is in the megabytes... when my svg file is very small.
The pdf export is not perfect, but I believe that some of the problem is with the PDF format itself. Your document probably has blurs, or gradients or similar features that are unsupported by PDF and therefore have to be rendered using bitmaps.
Rygle.
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