From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Aug 22 14:13:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com (femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com [24.254.60.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4BA5437B444; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:12:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah@employees.org) Received: from intruder.bmah.org ([24.176.204.87]) by femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail vM.4.01.03.20 201-229-121-120-20010223) with ESMTP id <20010822211256.CQUU25414.femail34.sdc1.sfba.home.com@intruder.bmah.org>; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:12:56 -0700 Received: (from bmah@localhost) by intruder.bmah.org (8.11.5/8.11.3) id f7MLCum25389; Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:12:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bmah) Message-Id: <200108222112.f7MLCum25389@intruder.bmah.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.5 07/13/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Murray Stokely Cc: freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Handbook PostScript output > 90 Megabytes In-Reply-To: <20010822135329.E9442@windriver.com> References: <20010822135329.E9442@windriver.com> Comments: In-reply-to Murray Stokely message dated "Wed, 22 Aug 2001 13:53:29 -0700." From: "Bruce A. Mah" Reply-To: bmah@FreeBSD.ORG X-Face: g~c`.{#4q0"(V*b#g[i~rXgm*w;:nMfz%_RZLma)UgGN&=j`5vXoU^@n5v4:OO)c["!w)nD/!!~e4Sj7LiT'6*wZ83454H""lb{CC%T37O!!'S$S&D}sem7I[A 2V%N&+ X-Image-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/Images/bmah-cisco-small.gif X-Url: http://www.employees.org/~bmah/ Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="==_Exmh_-1475382504P"; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2001 14:12:56 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org --==_Exmh_-1475382504P Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii If memory serves me right, Murray Stokely wrote: > I certainly think the excellent screenshots are worth the bloat at > almost any cost, but is there some way we can optimize our .scr -> > .eps conversion so that users can once again actually download the PDF > / PostScript versions from the FTP site? Yow! OK, it looks like the PS to PDF conversion shrinks the file down to something which, while still hefty, is at least manageable. From my last Handboook build of last week: nimitz:handbook% ls -ls book.{ps,pdf} 5456 -rw-r--r-- 1 bmah bmah 5576031 Aug 16 14:53 book.pdf 89576 -rw-r--r-- 1 bmah bmah 91664873 Aug 16 14:53 book.ps Wish I had some ideas on this one. I agree with you that we really really really want to keep the screenshots. Bruce. --==_Exmh_-1475382504P Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: Exmh version 2.3.1+ 05/14/2001 iD8DBQE7hCBY2MoxcVugUsMRAkOZAJ9pwKjUI6bi1KfqGy6ZdkD3vL5TbgCfTSGH fW9uXhXTps4LbqC+3AEQlIk= =uBbN -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --==_Exmh_-1475382504P-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message