Bug#272602: Processed: trailing blanks in PDFs

[Frank Küster <frank@debian.org>]

Dan Jacobson <jidanni@jidanni.org> wrote:

>>> What's the problem with those trailing blanks? Can you please point us
>>> to the part of the pdf specification that forbids this - or is there
>>> some older discussion (you wrote "... *still* emits some unnecessary
>>> trailing blanks")?
>
> I was just giving a minor efficiency tightening suggestion bug.
> Assuming all trailing blanks have been cleaned off the other lines,
> there is still one line that has them.  I spotted them With emacs'
> show-trailing-whitespace enabled.
>
> Mostly a few blanks won't use another disk block, however still I'd
> thought you would like to know about this.

I assume that this is a pdftex issue. And if you really think it should
be optimized, I guess you have to contact pdftex upstream developers. In
my personal opinion, there are much more important things to do in
pdftex than optimizing filesizes for a couple of bytes. You also have to
take into account the need in CPU time this would probably take.

This bug has been closed again, and I am happy with this - if you insist
on reopening, I'd tag it wontfix. At most I'd be willing to forward this
to upstream - but without any enthusiasm, rather with an apology for
raising such minor concerns. So you'd better contact them yourself.

Regards, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster, Biozentrum der Univ. Basel
Abt. Biophysikalische Chemie