On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:32:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: > '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.
PDFs are compressed, PsotScript files are not. That explains the size of the .ps file. As for the different PDF file sizes, are they the same version? file will tell you. -- Neil Bothwick Do hungry crows have ravenous appetites?
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