From owner-freebsd-multimedia Wed Jul 1 08:41:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA00195 for freebsd-multimedia-outgoing; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 08:41:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lor.watermarkgroup.com (lor.watermarkgroup.com [207.202.73.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA00188 for ; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 08:41:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from luoqi@watermarkgroup.com) Received: (from luoqi@localhost) by lor.watermarkgroup.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA14916; Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:39:42 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from luoqi) Date: Wed, 1 Jul 1998 11:39:42 -0400 (EDT) From: Luoqi Chen Message-Id: <199807011539.LAA14916@lor.watermarkgroup.com> To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, luoqi@watermarkgroup.com Subject: Re: pdf pain... Cc: ambrisko@whistle.com, dkulp@neomorphic.com, multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > Newer versions of PDF (>=1.2?) supports zlib based compression and > > it is preferred over the LZW compression -- Adobe Distiller on my Mac > > generates zlib compressed streams. It wouldn't be too hard to teach > > ghostscript to do that. > > any idea if this can be done afterwards (e.g. compressing the pdf > output by ghostscript) ? gv has no problems expanding the code on the > fly of course... > > cheers > luigi > -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- > Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione > email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa > tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) > fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ > _____________________________|______________________________________ > I've just tried ghostscript's ps2pdf. With the most recently version in ports, ghostscript does zlib compression, and it's on by default. So upgrade your ghostscript to the latest version (5.10) and you're all set. -lq To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message