J.Pietschmann wrote: Also, most of the PDF parts are already compressed (and re-encoded as ASCII85). A secondary compression will probably gain something between 15% and 20% for typical PDF files. Significant improvements are only to be expected in case of large embedded BMP images and in some cases if there are large embedded fonts.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I use FOP to prepare some documents that contain no images and use only the standard fonts. The other day, I thought I'd zip one of those files before sending it to a customer, and I got a 4% gain. I sent the unzipped PDF file rather than make the customer unzip the file. YMMV Jay Bryant Bryant Communication Services (presently consulting at Synergistic Solution Technologies) --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
