Thomas Viehmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank Küster wrote: >> There was. It ended with no conclusion. Here's my view of the outcome, >> from pure recollection without looking anything up: >> >> - gzipping PDF files does save some space; bz2 compression would save >> even more. Naturally, compressing files that are internally >> uncompressed gives better results. >> >> - among the people that maintain packages with lots of pdf.gz files, no >> one seems really opposed to shipping them uncompressed. But also >> nobody seemd to be willing to do the first step, especially since >> there is no consensus about not compressing them. > > I think that a notable addition (by Olaf v.d.S. IIRC) was that it could > be worthwhile to improve viewers.
Agreed. > E.g. kghostview will correctly open > .pdf.gz while gnome-gv will not. Similarly kdvi opens .dvi.gz. > Altough I'm not using KDE in general, my preference for kdvi is > precisely because of that (and reverse search, but that seems to be more > standard nowadays). I don't know over what you prever kdvi, but xdvi (which is xdvik really, but the k here has nothing to do with KDE) also opens dvi.gz, and has done so for long. Regards, Frank -- Frank Küster Single Molecule Spectroscopy, Protein Folding @ Inst. f. Biochemie, Univ. Zürich Debian Developer (teTeX)