Re: [opensuse] Windows vs. Suse OO docuent file size

Hi Mark,

maybe you could try ps2pdf:
in OOo you print "to file" as a postscript file.
Then in a console cd into the directory where you saved the .ps file and type
ps2pdf your-ps-file.ps your-pdf-name.pdf

I don't know about the sizes (just give it a try), but I experienced that
pdf's produced this way are much better quality than directly using OOo's pdf
functionality.

regards

Daniel
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Daniel Bauer photographer Basel Switzerland


Hi,
I tried this process this evening. I took the original Open office document (292.5kb) and after ps2pdf, it produced a pdf of 109.7kb instead of the 404kb that I had been getting.

I tried to open the final word document that I intend to send out, and opened it in OO. I tried to print it to file from there but it won't work.

I then took my final draft Word document that I intend to send out (produced on WinXP [4500kb] that produced a pdf of 140kb) and saved it as a word document in linux from OO. It came out as 3.6MB. Yeah, MB, not KB. I took that document and printed it to postscipt (2.7MB). I converted that to pdf and it came in at 2.2MB.


I tried saving the final word document to ODF, then ps, then pdf and it came in at 2.7MB.

Well, I figured hogs like that were ready for slaughter. So I sent them all to the trashbin.

I tried to find the cups-pdf rpm, and the only ones that I could find for suse 10.x are some for 64 bit systems. I am running 32 bit, and they won't work.

All my pictures in the newsletter are Jpegs, and before I inserted them into the newsletter I reduced the display quality to lower their kb count. The text that I used in the ODF document was URW Bookman L. It is a native font in OO, it isn't one that I imported into the program.

Thanks for all the help. I think if I produce an ODF original newsletter, I might get it close to a size that would work but it still won't be as small as that produced on Windows/Adobe.

Thanks again,
Mark

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