Re: PDF for beginners

[Karl Pearson <karlp ourldsfamily com>]

Nope, pdf files are not compressed much. If you run

zip target.pdf.zip source.zip

it will compress it by about 30%.

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Karl Pearson
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Senior Consulting Unix/MS/Database Analyst
karlp ourldsfamily com
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On Mon, 6 May 2002, Kalum / Grendel wrote:

->On Sat, 4 May 2002,  Cameron Simpson commented thusly,
->
->> On 15:59 04 May 2002, Allan Jarina <ajarina ngkhai com> wrote:
->> | how do you extract a bz2 file for example linux.pdf.bz2?
->>
->> bunzip2 linux.pdf.bz2
->>
->> Should leave you with a plain "linux.pdf" file.
->> Use acroread or xpdf to view it.
->
->Please note that zipping pdf files in plain stupid, pdf files are heavily
->compressed as it is and you gain nothing by compressing them.
->
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->Best Wishes,
->Grendel
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