On 01/13/2012 12:32 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
I've been in the habit of creating PDFs of .odt files using LibreOffice.
Today somewhere, I was reminded of 'ps2pdf', which I'd never used before.
The result is these 4 files :
-rw-r--r-- 1 purslow users 34475 Jan 12 07:52 boox.odt
-rw-r--r-- 1 purslow users 366711 Jan 13 04:05 boox.pdf
-rw-r--r-- 1 purslow purslow 830909 Jan 13 04:07 boox.ps
-rw-r--r-- 1 purslow purslow 67184 Jan 13 04:07 boox-test.pdf
Both PDFs seem the same when opened with Xpdf or Okular,
but the difference in sizes is striking :
the PDF created with LO direct export is 5 times
the size of the PDF created with a test run of Ps2pdf ;
the .ps file created with LO& then used for the latter is even bigger.
Can anyone explain what is going on ?
Could be font embedding. But not sure. Open it in Acrobat Reader and
in the properties you can see some details about the PDF and what's in it.
