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Am 13.01.2012 11:32, schrieb Philip Webb: |
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> I've been in the habit of creating PDFs of .odt files using LibreOffice. |
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> Today somewhere, I was reminded of 'ps2pdf', which I'd never used before. |
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> The result is these 4 files : |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow users 34475 Jan 12 07:52 boox.odt |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow users 366711 Jan 13 04:05 boox.pdf |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow purslow 830909 Jan 13 04:07 boox.ps |
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> -rw-r--r-- 1 purslow purslow 67184 Jan 13 04:07 boox-test.pdf |
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> Both PDFs seem the same when opened with Xpdf or Okular, |
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> but the difference in sizes is striking : |
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> the PDF created with LO direct export is 5 times |
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> the size of the PDF created with a test run of Ps2pdf ; |
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> the .ps file created with LO & then used for the latter is even bigger. |
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> Can anyone explain what is going on ? |
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Try the pdfdebugger provided by dev-java/pdfbox to inspect both files. |
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Maybe one of them uses a stupid internal structure. |
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BTW: I couldn't reproduce this with app-office/libreoffice-3.4.3.2-r1 |
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and cups-pdf (which should use the same backend as ps2pdf). The files |
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were nearly equal in size (ca. 60kB for about 1 page of text). |
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Regards, |
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Florian Philipp |