On Sun 02 Jan 2011 at 02:42:28 +0000, Michael Fothergill wrote: > So I tried the above command substituting my pdf file as input.pdf and > creating a suitable name for output.pdf and then hit return in a > sheepish ignorant kind of way and amazingly enough it worked. I got a > pdf file that was much smaller in size but looked fine in evince.
Using the same command my experience with a variety of pdf documents has been very mixed. One or two are reduced to 10% of the original sizes, most have no significant reduction and one is three times larger. > The info and man write ups are a bit babbitesque/delphic for me. I > will look at the ghostscript documentation package I installed and see > if I can figure out what this set of commands are doing here a bit > more clearly while being glad that they worked. http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/doc/cvs/Ps2pdf.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110102133630.gh32...@desktop