[plug] pdf size

[Leon Brooks]

On Tue, 9 Jul 2002 14:31, skribe wrote:
> Just while we're discussing ps2pdf, I've just converted a 400k word doc
> (70k OOo doc) using OOo and the pdf is in excess of 6M.  That sounds a
> little big for just formatted text IMHO. Is that about right?

A 1-page 7.1k OpenOffice Writer doc (9.2 as Word95) became 13.2k as PS, 4.2k 
gzipped, 3.3k as PDF. One big table, some background shading, no images.

Cheers; Leon