-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The Monday 2008-06-23 at 23:10 -0400, Mark Misulich wrote:
Hi, a couple of months ago I wrote about the large file sizes that I was getting when I converted a word .doc file to OO odt file, with the intention of later converting it to pdf. They were in the size of megabites. This is a bit of an ongoing saga for me, as this time I made up the newsletter for the organization using Open Office from the start, and then attempted to convert the odt file to pdf in linux. I ended up having to go back to windows in order to get the file sizes to a manageable size, the linux files were too large.
I remember that conversation.
Here is a rundown of what I did. 1. I made up the newsletter using Open Office. The final file size was 198kb. Not too bad, I thought that it was going to work out as I expected the file to be smaller yet when I converted that to a pdf file.
The size of the .odt or .doc file has nothing to do with the size of the .pdf.
2. I converted the odt file to pdf. The resultant pdf file was 758.8kb. I am shooting for around 200kb, but will send a file up to 300kb. Any larger and it takes too long for the dialup users to download it.
Converting to PDF from the OO menu produces very good quality files (with links and indexes), but large. There are two reasons: a) the quality of the photos included and b) the fonts chosen that are included partially or in full into the PDF file. There is a bugzilla affecting b). To have more control of both points above you need to produce an intermediate .ps file, and then convert that file to .pdf using the "ps2pdf" script. Forget about the tools that print directly to PDF using cups, kprinter, etc: you loose the fine control. The choice of fonts used in your original file can have quite a big impact on the final size, so you need some experimentation there, or some knowledge. This is true for windows, too. If you want, you could create a sample file in OOo similar to your newsletter, a page or two, and let us play with it to see how much we can reduce it.
I decided to save the newsletter odt file in doc format to see how large it would be, before I quit linux for Windows. It came out to 270kb. I was hoping to open it in word in winxp, and then convert it to pdf.
You know that there is OO for windows, too. You could use OO in windows with acrobat to do the conversion to PDF with much less hassle. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFIYOKftTMYHG2NR9URAgHDAJ4w72040KfgE+NzSldiC8HTsTDx+QCgiCEb hKt8ukOEF2VOysKQkua+y9s= =QhS+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org