[gentoo-user] Re: PDF puzzle

[Nikos Chantziaras]

On 01/13/2012 12:32 PM, Philip Webb wrote:
> I'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.
>
> Can anyone explain what is going on ?

Could be font embedding.  But not sure.  Open it in Acrobat Reader and 
in the properties you can see some details about the PDF and what's in it.