[Bf-docboard] chapter_mesh_modelling

[Carsten Wartmann]

Bart Veldhuizen writes:
 > 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? :)

Oh! Too bad. I thougt that could be the problem.

Carsten.