Re: Reading .pdf.gz files

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 01:36:30PM +0200, Matijs van Zuijlen wrote:

> I just noticed that all pdf documentation for the tex packages in
> compressed using gzip. Although I found out how to read these (use gv,
> in stead of xpdf), I'm wondering why these files are compressed. They
> don't seem to get much smaller that way, and gv seems to be slower in
> displaying at least part of them (e.g., the cover page of 
> /usr/share/doc/texmf/context/base/mreadme.pdf.gz) than xpdf.

I also find that a bit irritating.  Not only the pdf files but also
dvi and postscript.  When you try and browse the documentation with an
html browser, the those files are out of reach as the mime types do
not make provision for it.

Johann
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