Wouter Verhelst <[email protected]> writes:

> - Compressing documentation files incurs an additional step on the user
>   who wants to read said documentation. Yes, there is zless and zmore.
>   However, there is no ziceweasel, zpdf-reader[2] or zgv. Even if such
>   tools do exist, we would still require that users either know these
>   tools exist and how to get them, or to decompress files before reading
>   them.

Not that it's an argument against your more general proposal, but it's
worth noting that running xpdf on a compressed PDF file just works.

-- 
Russ Allbery ([email protected])               <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>


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