[plug] pdf compression

[Garry]

I don't know anything about the guts of pdf files, but it makes sense to me that a zipping program can compress a file without opening it as a pdf. AFAIK they treat all files as ASCII collections and go from there..

HTH

Garry


On Thu, 22 May 2003 16:17:02 +0800
"Brad Hill" <brad at marketcast.com.au> wrote:

> Does anyone know if there's a linux utility that can open a pdf file,
> compress it's innards and save it back as a pdf file?  (I know this is
> theoretically possible since there's options to use LZW, ZIP, JPEG etc
> compression when writing pdfs)
>