Re: Compressing pdf documentation - why?
On 17.03.06 Julian Gilbey (jdg@debian.org) wrote:
Hi,
> Just noticed: lots of our PDF-format documentation in
> /usr/share/doc is compressed. This doesn't really make much sense,
> though, as PDF is usually a compressed format to begin with, so it
> saves little space and makes it harder to read the files.
>
IIRC we had that discussion already. The result was that the
compressing these pdf documents saves more space than expected. xpdf
provides zxpdf (IIRC) and against the acroread packages was a bug
filed to provide a similar wrapper.
H.
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