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On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:32:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: |
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> '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 |
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> before. 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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PDFs are compressed, PsotScript files are not. That explains the size of |
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the .ps file. As for the different PDF file sizes, are they the same |
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version? file will tell you. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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