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120113 Neil Bothwick wrote: |
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> On Fri, 13 Jan 2012 05:32:35 -0500, Philip Webb wrote: |
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>> I've been in the habit of creating PDFs of .odt files using LibreOffice. |
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>> I was reminded of 'ps2pdf': 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. |
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> That explains the size of the .ps file. |
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> As for the different PDF file sizes, are they the same version? |
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> file will tell you. |
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502: lit> file boox.pdf |
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boox.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4 |
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503: lit> file boox-test.pdf |
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boox-test.pdf: PDF document, version 1.4 |
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Apparently, yes. |
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