> > > 2. xpdf doesn't want to open gzipped pdfs by default which
> > > makes this a pain in the **tt for people who want to read the
> > > pdf.
> >
> > There's "zxpdf" in the xpdf package, analogous to zless and zcat it
> > views gzipped files.
And some of us want to use evince or kpdf or gpdf.
I don't think PDFs should ever be compressed with gzip.
- Jim Van Zandt