Dear Christian, after a discussion about the sense and problems of gzip'ing pdf documentation (in the tetex-doc package), we noticed that most pdf viewers support compressed PDF files, while acroread does not.
Sanjoy Mahajan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> We should consider filing wishlist bugs agains xpdf (and >> acroread-debian-files if you like, it's not in Debian AFAIR) to enable >> them to open compressed files. > > That's a good idea. I was about to write patch for xpdf, then I read > the manual entry again and it has a program 'zxpdf' that handles > compressed files. So now I'm happy. Acrobat will probably never > handle it. They barely bother with Linux, so doubt they'd care enough > to deal with a problem that shows up probably only on Unix/linux You (Sanjoy) forgot that what you call as "acroread" is probably /usr/bin/acroread by Christian. Christian, it would be great it acroread has a functionality built in as in the zxpdf script. I am quite sure that it wouldn't be too hard to make /usr/bin/acroread detect whether its argument is a compressed filename, so that that one doesn't even need to call zacroread. I would be oblidged if you could tell us whether you plan to integrate such functionality, so that it is recorded in the BTS. Thanks in advance, Frank -- Frank K�ster Inst. f. Biochemie der Univ. Z�rich Debian Developer
