Re: Compressing pdf documentation - why?
On Sat, Mar 18, 2006 at 04:00:55PM +0100, Hilmar Preusse wrote:
> 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.
Gosh - I didn't realise. Thanks!
Julian
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