28 Jan
2005
28 Jan
'05
8:19 a.m.
On Fri, 28 Jan 05 18:30:52 GMT
msokolov(a)ivan.harhan.org (Michael Sokolov) wrote:
Radio Yerevan: In
theory yes, in practice no. The intermediate PS file
was several hundred MB in size. Converting it to PDF reduced it to
20 MB. It doesn't make sense to distribute a file that is larger as the
average hard disk connected to a VAX. I could have gzip (or even bzip2)
it, but as you refuse to use gzip...
Maybe this was not clear to you: We are talking about PS / PDF conaining
only lots of high res monochrome bitmaps. No OCRed text.
--
tsch??,
Jochen
Homepage: http://www.unixag-kl.fh-kl.de/~jkunz/
- Run the
result through tiff2ps(1)
- and finaly generate a PDF with ps2pdf(1).
Could you perhaps be a little more
friendly to people like me and Tony
Duell who actually _USE_ our classic computers for our day-to-day
work, including viewing classic computer documentation, and make the
PostScript available as well, i.e., with the last step omitted?