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 Post subject: Tips for Saving PDF Files
PostPosted: Thu Oct 11, 2012 9:07 pm  (#1) 
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Part 2: Tips for Saving PDF Files
Portable Document Format (PDF) has been around since the early 1990s. In 2008, Adobe officially released PDF as an open standard so now anyone can make and distribute PDF’s freely.

Originally, PDFs were distributed at commercial printer grade (300 DPI+). These days the majority of PDFs are for screen only (75 DPI). Most PDF programs default to a printer grade DPI. The key for the average user now is deciding who their target user is.

Ahead, I have briefly covered the relevant PDF options in OpenOffice/LibreOffice and Microsoft Word for limiting file size and fitting images properly.

Using Apache OpenOffice/LibreOffice to save as a PDF
1. View menu=> Print Layout.
2. Right click (any over-width images) => select Picture, Type tab, check "Width Relative" & "Keep ratio". (Another method is to only check, "Keep ratio" and manually scale images using the anchor points.)
3. File menu=> "Export as PDF" (use default options*).

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*Additional PDF options will save file size. This is handy if you are only viewing the PDF on screen as reference.
The default option, "Embedded OpenDocument File" allows re-opening and edit the PDF file in OpenOffice/LibreOffice.

File Savings with different options
• If you un-check, "Embedded OpenDocument File" you will save approx., 20% file size.
• Using defaults check, "Reduce image resolution" with 150 DPI you will see little or no savings.
• Using defaults check, "Reduce image resolution" with 75 DPI you will save approx., 45%.
• Un-check, "Embedded OpenDocument File" using 75 DPI you will save approx., 60%.

LibreOffice PDF options

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OpenOffice PDF options

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Using Microsoft Word to save PDF
1. View menu=> Print Layout.
2. Right click any oversized images=> Size. Make sure “Lock aspect ratio” and “Relative to original picture size” are checked.
3. Show the Ruler.
4. If an image is outside of the document area, grab a corner handle and resize.
5. Use Print Preview to check, until everything looks right.
6. Save as, PDF. Have a look at Options button. Most importantly, if the PDF is for screens choose Minimum size.

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Part 1: Saving a GimpChat Text Tutorial

PDF Wiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pdf

Useful Apache OpenOffice and LibreOffice extensions
Writer2xhtml, Writer2ePub, Oracle PDF Import Extension
http://extensions.services.openoffice.org/
http://extensions.libreoffice.org/

The Writer2ePub extension above is very slick.

Gimp's Handy Calculator
In Gimp, Filters=> Python-Fu=> Console.
While doing the file savings calculations above the Python Console came in handy.

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 Post subject: Re: Tips for Saving PDF Files
PostPosted: Fri Oct 12, 2012 6:22 pm  (#2) 
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Thank you so much, Odin, for taking the time to do this. :yr

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