Forum: Inkscape Reducing the pdf in size.

Just finished my first Inkscape book cover. The pdf is huge, over 16 mb.
Can anyone suggest a way  to reduce it? I tried changing the dpi for
rasterization from 600 dpi to 300 dpi and it just got bigger! Next step 
I
will reduce the background image in Gimp, reimport,  and see what 
happens.
--
John Culleton
"Create Book Covers with Scribus"
Printable E-book 38 pages $5.95
http://www.booklocker.com/books/4055.html

What OS?

I tried saving an SVG image consisting of a letter size bitmap at
300DPI and a whole page of flowed text as a PDF and the result was
>60MB.

Instead I printed to a PDF file using the cutePDF print driver (I am
on windows) and ended up with a file <2MB in size.

-Rob A>

I'd recommend saving as png and then resaving as pdf if you need to.
It's going to be more accurately printed, most likely, and probably a
good bit smaller than 16mb.

JF

In my experience (XP 4.7dev snapshot) Inkscape is not space efficient
when performing a save as pdf with embedded bitmaps.  I have no ideas
what settings are used, but the files end up quite large.

-Rob A>