120113 Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:32:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: >> I've been in the habit of creating PDFs of .odt files using LibreOffice. >> I was reminded of 'ps2pdf': 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.
502: lit> file boox.pdf boox.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4 503: lit> file boox-test.pdf boox-test.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4 Apparently, yes. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
