[plug] pdf compression

[Bernd Felsche]

On Thu, May 22, 2003 at 05:28:41PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> In message <20030522092426.GA25851 at gulag.guild.uwa.edu.au>
> on Thu, May 22, 2003 at 05:24:26PM +0800, James Devenish wrote:
> > usually use GhostScript to

> Someone mentioned ps2pdf, which is probably a GhostScript utility, but
> there should be pdf2pdf, too. ps2pdf should theoretically produce PDFs

Only the name would change. gs works out the type of input as it
reads the file and writes the output according to the PDF filter and
options you choose.

> quite alright (since it is possible to convert the most common semantics
> from one to the other) so I'm not sure why GhostScript sometimes
> produces huge PDF files.
> 

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