LL-L "Technica" 2003.10.17 (10) [E]

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From: Ruud Harmsen <rha at rudhar.com>
Subject: Computer/technical

08:50 AM 10/17/2003 -0700, Lowlands-L:
>The only
>disadvantage is that scanned pdf files can be fairly large.

But probably not much larger than in a "direct" graphic format like
GIF or JPEG.

>I would solve that by making them available in zipped format.

Worth a try, but I don't expect much improvement here, because PDF
has its own compression built in. It has for text, I don't know if
it also has for graphics. But even then, algorithms like those that
(pk)(win)Zip use are often not very good at graphic material, as
they are designed primarily with text in mind, and for lossless
compression (graphic compression schemes usually do introduce loss,
but of a kind that the eye hardly sees).
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Ruud Harmsen, http://rudhar.comindex/whatsnew.htm, 14 oct 2003

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