Just finished my first Inkscape book cover. The pdf is huge, over 16 mb. Can anyone suggest a way to reduce it? I tried changing the dpi for rasterization from 600 dpi to 300 dpi and it just got bigger! Next step I will reduce the background image in Gimp, reimport, and see what happens.
What OS?
I tried saving an SVG image consisting of a letter size bitmap at 300DPI and a whole page of flowed text as a PDF and the result was
60MB.
Instead I printed to a PDF file using the cutePDF print driver (I am on windows) and ended up with a file <2MB in size.
-Rob A>
On 3/4/10, John Culleton <john@...1668...> wrote:
Just finished my first Inkscape book cover. The pdf is huge, over 16 mb. Can anyone suggest a way to reduce it? I tried changing the dpi for rasterization from 600 dpi to 300 dpi and it just got bigger! Next step I will reduce the background image in Gimp, reimport, and see what happens. -- John Culleton "Create Book Covers with Scribus" Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95 http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html
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I'd recommend saving as png and then resaving as pdf if you need to. It's going to be more accurately printed, most likely, and probably a good bit smaller than 16mb.
JF
John Culleton wrote:
Just finished my first Inkscape book cover. The pdf is huge, over 16 mb. Can anyone suggest a way to reduce it? I tried changing the dpi for rasterization from 600 dpi to 300 dpi and it just got bigger! Next step I will reduce the background image in Gimp, reimport, and see what happens.
In my experience (XP 4.7dev snapshot) Inkscape is not space efficient when performing a save as pdf with embedded bitmaps. I have no ideas what settings are used, but the files end up quite large.
-Rob A>
On 3/4/10, Joshua Facemyer <jfacemyer@...155...> wrote:
I'd recommend saving as png and then resaving as pdf if you need to. It's going to be more accurately printed, most likely, and probably a good bit smaller than 16mb.
JF
John Culleton wrote:
Just finished my first Inkscape book cover. The pdf is huge, over 16 mb. Can anyone suggest a way to reduce it? I tried changing the dpi for rasterization from 600 dpi to 300 dpi and it just got bigger! Next step I will reduce the background image in Gimp, reimport, and see what happens.
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