[Bf-docboard] chapter_mesh_modelling

[Bart Veldhuizen]

On Sat, 2002-12-28 at 17:54, Carsten Wartmann wrote:
>  > This also raises the question how we can limit the size of the resulting
>  > PDF. It is about 3.5MB right now and we haven't even properly started!
>  > Should we try to create a high-resolution and a low-resolution PDF?
> 
> I experienced that the compression in open-source generated PDFs sucks
> (or is non-existant, maybe license thingies). So I used to compress
> with gzip which is quite portable and even Browsers decompress it on
> the fly.

Did that, and it only reduces the size from 3.6MB to 3.4MB. I think that
the embedded PNG files are already pretty well optimized! Maybe the
original files themselves need some resizing? :)

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Bart Veldhuizen <bart@vrotvrot.com>