LINUX/GNU Tutorials

[jrv at vanzandt.mv.com (James R. Van Zandt)]

Ron Peterson <rpeterson at yellowbank.com> wrote:
>
>Jerry A Clabaugh wrote:
>> 
>> Just yesterday I was expressing my lack of enthusiasm for PDF to
>> a co-worker.  He assured me that PDF's are much smaller than PS's,
>> and therefore better for downloading and e-mailing.
>
>PDF's are basically just compressed postscript.  A little more to it
>than that but not much.  Compress a postscript file and compare it's
>size to what you get if you distill it into a PDF.  Pretty similar.
>
>The nice thing about PDF isn't the file format itself, but what Adobe
>has provided in their reader and particularly their Acrobat (or Exchange
>or whatever you like to call it) application.  Pretty user friendly dah
>te dah.

The thing that I like about PDF files is that the reader can search
them - unlike PostScript.  Unfortunately, some PDF files are not
searchable.  I guess those are really image files, and so probably not
very compressed either.  I think it depends on what utility was used
to create the PDF file.

		- Jim Van Zandt
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