| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim(at)gunduz(dot)org>, Mike Ellsworth <younicycle(at)gmail(dot)com>, PostgreSQL WWW <pgsql-www(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: Beta page (pdfs) |
| Date: | 2010-09-16 22:11:52 |
| Message-ID: | 9615.1284675112@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> 2010/9/16 Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>:
>> 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.
> Perhaps there's another tool that can generate it for us? Or does the
> new pdf format use some secret new compression method?
The PDF format specs are public (and even an ISO standard now) --- but
considering that 1.7 is only a couple of years old, it's fair to worry
about how much software can read it successfully.
regards, tom lane
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