> > On Mon, Aug 6, 2012 at 10:25 AM, Norbert Preining <prein...@logic.at> wrote: > >>>> > >>>> PDF since format 1.4 has internal compression, meaning that > >>>> the other compression does not win a lot at all > >>>> We could advise packagers to use dh_compress -X.pdf Le Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 02:06:56PM +0200, Manuel Pégourié-Gonnard a écrit : > > % ls -lh beameruserguide.pdf* pgfmanual.pdf* > -rw-r--r-- 1 mpg mpg 1,5M août 6 13:44 beameruserguide.pdf > -rw-r--r-- 1 mpg mpg 5,1M août 6 13:41 pgfmanual.pdf > % gzip beameruserguide.pdf pgfmanual.pdf > % ls -lh beameruserguide.pdf* pgfmanual.pdf* > -rw-r--r-- 1 mpg mpg 1,4M août 6 13:44 beameruserguide.pdf.gz > -rw-r--r-- 1 mpg mpg 4,9M août 6 13:41 pgfmanual.pdf.gz > > Is a 5% or 7% gain in size really worth the trouble?
Hi, PDF compression has been discussed similarly at least in 2006 and 2012. - http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2006/06/msg01015.html - http://lists.debian.org/debian-policy/2012/02/msg00056.html Since compressing PDFs is not required by the Policy it has been proposed to change Debhelper's defaults: http://bugs.debian.org/375406 If there is a consensus on the matter, perhaps #375406 can be reopened with a good summary taking into account why it was closed (because there are mainstream viewers that can open gzipped PDF files). Have a nice day, -- Charles Plessy Tsurumi, Kanagawa, Japan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120806230859.gb4...@falafel.plessy.net
