[Gllug] Promoting the GLLUG meeting on 12th November

[Henry Gilbert]

On 11/2/05, Tethys <sta296 at astradyne.co.uk> wrote:
>
> Henry Gilbert writes:
>
> >PDF are huge for professional quality printing.
> >Specially when coming from Scribus.
>
> No, that's a cop out. PDFs are generally very small. Being vector based,
> the printing quality is high anyway, without a large filesize. It's usually
> due to either:
>
> 1.  The use of large numbers of fonts, and the creating application embedding
>     those fonts within the document, as opposed to converting the outlines
>     to raw vectors instead. There's a tradeoff to be made there, and long
>     documents can benefit from embedded fonts, while shorter ones tend to do
>     better without.
>
> 2.  Embedded raster images. If you have a large, high resolution image, and
>     you include it in a small area of the page (the GLLUG logo in the top
>     left, for example), then the creating application will often just include
>     the full resolution image anyway. PostScript and PDF don't deal with
>     raster images very efficiently, so they take up a large amount of space.
>     A sane application might have a "reduce raster data to NNN dpi" option
>     on PDF export. Few seem to, though.
>
> Tet
>

Good to know that.
This printing lady was lying when she informed me thus
and I bought into that.

I cease to trust humans from now on :(
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