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pdf exports to big to e-mail. Can I make it smaller?

Asked by Chris Gebben

I have designed a 17" x 11" brochure with pictures and text. When I save it as a pdf it saves fine. However, when I E-mail it it is too large to e-mail. What can I do? I am using version 0.46. Thanks.

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pbhj (pbhj) said : 		#1

The PC standard ppi (pixels per inch) is 96. Anything more than this is a waste in your pdf if it's for on screen reading. The standard dpi for the PDF raster image areas in Inkscape is 300dpi. Reduce this figure to 96, or I use 150 if I want folks to print it at home, and that will cut out a lot of the size. You can also do any of your normal moves for reducing image size on any raster images for your SVG before your put them in. Don't forget to do a File > Vacuum Defs to remove unneeded crud. Reducing the number of fonts used will also help (unless you're converting the fonts to paths anyway, then it won't make a difference - if you only use a few characters of a particular font then you should convert to a path).

HTH.

One other thing I've kinda done before - you could take the output PNG file, turn it into a JPEG and then create a single page PDF using that JPEG (I've used ImageMagick's convert and PDFTK for this in the past, IIRC, Scribus would probably work too).

You may also want to consider just having a link to a linearised version of the PDF that can display once the first couple of pages worth of data is available.

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