Inkscape

[Linda]

Does anyone know how you reduce the size of the pdf file Inkscape 
creates?  In the past I have created brochures in Corel Draw on Windows 
and printed to PDF which left me a file that was under 200 kb. I have 
been playing with Inkscape so I can do the work without changing to a 
windows machine but the equivalent job creates a file that is nearly 2 mb
I've tried dramatically reducing the size of the source jpg files but it 
is still 1.8 mb.
               Thanks
                Linda