Bug#289096: tetex-doc: pdf files should not be gzipped

[frank@kuesterei.ch (Frank Küster)]

Dear Christian,

after a discussion about the sense and problems of gzip'ing pdf
documentation (in the tetex-doc package), we noticed that most pdf
viewers support compressed PDF files, while acroread does not. 

Sanjoy Mahajan <sanjoy@mrao.cam.ac.uk> wrote:

>> We should consider filing wishlist bugs agains xpdf (and
>> acroread-debian-files if you like, it's not in Debian AFAIR) to enable
>> them to open compressed files.
>
> That's a good idea.  I was about to write patch for xpdf, then I read
> the manual entry again and it has a program 'zxpdf' that handles
> compressed files.  So now I'm happy.  Acrobat will probably never
> handle it.  They barely bother with Linux, so doubt they'd care enough
> to deal with a problem that shows up probably only on Unix/linux

You (Sanjoy) forgot that what you call as "acroread" is probably
/usr/bin/acroread by Christian.

Christian, it would be great it acroread has a functionality built in as
in the zxpdf script. I am quite sure that it wouldn't be too hard to
make /usr/bin/acroread detect whether its argument is a compressed
filename, so that that one doesn't even need to call zacroread.

I would be oblidged if you could tell us whether you plan to integrate
such functionality, so that it is recorded in the BTS.

Thanks in advance, Frank
-- 
Frank Küster
Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Zürich
Debian Developer