This is getting a bit off topic but...
> Actually, a PDF is alittle more involved that just a ps file. It's
PDF (Acrobat) v4 is very close to Postscript Level 3. V3 and below are a
different format.
> for the compression, it's kinda lousy atleast on standard 150 dpi scans
> of B&W text. A standard G4 tiff is 25% smaller than the pdf - I guess it
It depends on how you generate and store the image withing the PDF
document. G4 compressed TIFF images can be stored natively within PDF's as
can JPEGS. The PDF spec recommends that JPEG be used for photos and G4
compressed TIFF be used for black and white images. We've been looking at
this where I work as we have 9 million G4 compressed tiff images that we
want to serve up via the web.
Adobe have a version of acroread for Linux and as already said there are
quite a number of other readers and converters around such as gv, xpdf and
ghostscript.
PDF as a document delivery format is actually quite good.
Carl.
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