Re: PDF files and dh_compress
At 1147099677 past the epoch, Craig Small wrote:
> Whatever the compression is, it is not too good.
> I'm getting about 10-30% compression on pdfs.
Which raises the question, what is acceptable? I don't think
a 10% gain in itself is worth gzipping PDFs for. If 10% was
the "threshold", bzip2 should be used instead of gzip for
other things in /usr/share/doc.
I think PDFs use ZIP internally. ZIP has compression ratios,
perhaps PDFs can be re-packed to use a higher ratio?
> Random text is just under 50% for me.
^^^^^^
How random? You can't adequately compress noise.
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Jon Dowland
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