tip: creating compact PDFs from LibreOffice
I have a document with pictures. I printed it to PDF from LibreOffice. The result was 20MB: too big to mail. I used a program called "shrinkpdf" to shrink the PDF. There are no options. The size was 128k. It was a bit fuzzy. Then I found out that LibreOffice's export to PDF lets you control the resolution and clarity of pictures. The default setting gave me 333k. It looked much better than the output of shrinkpdf. Conclusion: LibreOffice's export to pdf is usefully different from printing to PDF.
On 2024-11-04 12:34, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I have a document with pictures. I printed it to PDF from LibreOffice. The result was 20MB: too big to mail.
I used a program called "shrinkpdf" to shrink the PDF. There are no options. The size was 128k. It was a bit fuzzy.
Then I found out that LibreOffice's export to PDF lets you control the resolution and clarity of pictures.
Which parameter? Do you mean "DPI", like 300dpi, 600dpi, etc?
The default setting gave me 333k. It looked much better than the output of shrinkpdf.
Conclusion: LibreOffice's export to pdf is usefully different from printing to PDF. --- Post to this mailing list talk@gtalug.org Unsubscribe from this mailing list https://gtalug.org/mailman/listinfo/talk
From: William Park via talk <talk@gtalug.org>
On 2024-11-04 12:34, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
I have a document with pictures.
Then I found out that LibreOffice's export to PDF lets you control the resolution and clarity of pictures.
Which parameter? Do you mean "DPI", like 300dpi, 600dpi, etc?
I actually used the defaults and got good results: - jpeg compression quality 90% - reduce image resolution to 600 DPI [or maybe it was 300] I don't know where the DPI default comes from. These options are immediately visible when I ask to export to PDF.
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