Re: [Gimp-user] Image Compression

[Liam R E Quin <liam holoweb net>]

On Wed, 2020-12-02 at 10:59 -0500, Jason Amerson via gimp-user-list
wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I scanned in a magazine as JPEGs, 300 dpi and high compression, but
> still each file is over a megabyte. When I create a PDF using these
> files, it is over 250 MB. I was wondering if you could tell me how to
> compress these files in GIMP so that the resulting PDF will be of
> normal size.

A PDF for printing is nomally hundreds of megabytes per page.

if you mean, normal compared to PDF files on the Web, scale the images
down to e.g. 96ppi. )96dpi). You may need to use unsharp mask on htem a
little afterwards.

Obviously a magazine will be copyright, as Cliff pointed out, so
remember it's not in general legal to redistribute even for no money.
unless you get permission, unless both the magazine and all items in it
are out of copyright- e.g. it's mover than 70 years since the death of
any artist or writer involved.

Liam (slave ankh)


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