Re: Beta page (pdfs)

Le 17/09/2010 00:04, Magnus Hagander a écrit :
> 2010/9/16 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>> Devrim =?ISO-8859-1?Q?G=DCND=DCZ?= <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org> writes:
>>> On Wed, 2010-09-15 at 16:15 -0400, Mike Ellsworth wrote:
>>>> Not sure if anyone cares or not - but the US pdf at
>>>> http://www.postgresql.org/developer/beta
>>>> is saved as pdf 1.4 (Acrobat 5) - and is 18.4 meg
>>
>>> *AFAIK*, this is what we have on Linux. Right?
>>
>> Yeah, if you use the available open-source tools, that's the sort of
>> size you get. It's possible that we could make the PDF smaller if we
>> passed it through Acrobat afterwards, but I'm not especially eager
>> to inject a commercial app into the build process.
>
> +1 on avoiding that.
>
> I know a tool called "pdftk" can be used to recompress PDFs, but it
> only moves the 9.0 alpha one from 19Mb to 18Mb in my tests, so I'm not
> sure it's worth using.
>

The french manual in PDF is only 8 Mb.

> Perhaps there's another tool that can generate it for us? Or does the
> new pdf format use some secret new compression method?
>

We're using xsltproc and fo to build our PDF files. But we're working
with XML files

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