On 5/10/06, Yaroslav Halchenko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What about improving transparent decompression somehow? well... unification via mailcap is nice, but as I mentioned before it would be trickier to make it work from firefox (it assumes all .gz files
Good solutions aren't always trivial. :)
to be gzip archives right of the box), and would require each application tuning to make it handle pdf.gz, or may be pdf.bz2...
Ideally those applications shouldn't have to know about specific encoding schemes but should be able to offload decoding to a library.
besides that such unification would forbid my own choice... now
Why would that be?
for quick viewing I prefer to use xpdf, for some long read I would like to use acroread... Sure we could create some wrapper to make it work like zview acroread *.pdf.gz but I am not sure if it is really worth it. As I have shown, uncompressed PDFs of the whole sid would sacrifice just 150M of space which is miniscular... and on old boxes
It still sounds like very wasted space.
