In Digest V103 #35, the person identified as chris, [EMAIL PROTECTED] hunted and pecked out the following:
>Encoding and compression are two different things. Second dope slap administered... I =knew= that, but forgot... >(BTW: for clarity, compression reduces the file size, but creates an 8 >bit binary file, so even a compressed file will need to be encoded... and >the reason compression did little to the file size of the PDF was because >the PDF format can already be well optimized or "compressed", so doing it >again will have no effect.... this is NOT true with all PDFs, they can >also be poorly optimized and so compression may have a large effect on >them... it just so happens the one you were trying to do was already as >small as it was probably going to get). Thanks. I don't think I've ever seen the need for encoding a compressed file explained; I had always understood that compression protected the resource fork of a Mac file by bundling it with the data fork. FWIW the .pdf file was generated by PrintToPDF, so I'm not surprised that the optimization was good; Jim Walker does good work. -- Selah! BWms [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -= "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." Steve Wozniak =- ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
