Bug#819753: texlive-latex-extra-doc: please compress all PDF files

[Norbert Preining <preining@logic.at>]

tags 819753 + will-no-fix
thanks

> I am trying to upgrade texlive on my notebook but it is running out of space
> while setting up texlive-latex-extra-doc. This is a big package, it contains
> many large PDF files. evince and xpdf can handle gz compressed PDF files, I
> don't know if all supported PDF viewers can, but it would save quite some
> diskspace if you could ship all PDF files compressed.

Did you compute how much disk space it would save?

PDFs *are* already compressed, that is the reason it does not make sense
to recompress them. The difference is not even 50M as far as I see, and
this is with highest compression.

I don't think this is worth the trade off. Simply do *not* install 
tl-latex-extra-doc is the better solution for your notebook.

All the best

Norbert

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