[plug] pdf compression

[Garry]

Fair enough, but you are then assuming that whatever pdf viewer the client uses, is OK with transparently expanding whichever method of compression you happen to have used.. Perhaps Adobe's viewer is good, (don't know) but as we know there is many methods available to view a pdf..

HTH

Garry


On Thu, 22 May 2003 16:48:15 +0800
"Brad Hill" <brad at marketcast.com.au> wrote:

> 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)
> > >
>