Reuben Thomas wrote:
>
> > It's the same problem we had with screenshots: user manuals, system
> > manuals, etc, mostly over 100 pages (yes, we kicked Word and do them now
>
> Out of interest, have you tried making PDF files instead of PS? Aren't
> they always compressed?
Our document's life line is:
LyX > preprocessor > LyX (batch mode) > LaTeX > dvips > ps2pdf = pdf
or
> latex2html = html
ps2pdf simply calls ghostview with the right parameters. The man page
says:
It does not compress the output at all, except for character
bitmaps: it can't use LZW because of Unisys' patent
claims, and it doesn't yet use other compression methods
for images.
Is there another way to generate PDF files?
> Alternatively, what happens when you gzip one of your large PS files?
> Since gv can view PS files even when compressed, this is a nice way to
> keep them, and gzipped PS is typically smaller than PDF.
I don't want to only keep the files, I also want to deliver them to
customers, who mostly use the Acrobat Reader (I'm working in a
Win-world). I can live with gs/gsview, but others don't and that's the
problem.
(Learned today something new: gsview/gv open .ps.gz and .pdf.gz files.
Wow!).
gzip compresses a 50 MB PDF file to 0.9 MB, now I'm really scared. Can
someone help me making those files smaller?
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