[plug] pdf compression

[Brad Hill]

I ideally want to be able to re-transmit incoming pdf files out to our
clients using the least amount of bandwidth possible but also with the least
amount of hassles possible.  I.E. I don't want the clients to have to
uncompress the files at the other end if i can avoid it (and pdf compression
seems pretty good normally anyhow... so long as it's actually USED when the
pdf was created, which many people seem to omit).

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Garry" <garbuck at westnet.com.au>
To: <plug at plug.linux.org.au>
Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2003 4:32 PM
Subject: Re: [plug] pdf compression


>
> 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)
> >