[pdftex] Re: pdftex compression -- proposed addition to manual

[Prof Brian D Ripley]

On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, Alan Shutko wrote:

> Reinhard Kotucha <reinhard at kammer.uni-hannover.de> writes:
>
> > I was amazed how small the pdf files were compared to the original
> > jpegs.  Here are the compression ratios I got:
>
> I know that some versions of GS downsample images when converting to
> PDF.  That would explain file-size savings, at the cost of image
> quality.

I have also seen some modest and few large compressions using lossless
gzip and bzip2 on jpeg files, and the large ones were on files produced by
digital cameras.

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Brian D. Ripley,                  ripley at stats.ox.ac.uk
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