Public bug reported:
Binary package hint: texlive
Most, if not all, the PDF documentation of Latex packages in the Texlive
distribution is compressed with gzip in Ubuntu.
This is not sensible:
1) PDF is itself a compressed format... gzipping PDF files saves almost
no space. The only case where it saves space is when the original PDF
is not properly compressed. However, there are excellent tools for
compressing the PDF without putting it in a non-pdf envelope. For
instance, see the PDF compress utility in the multivalent PDF tools.
2) pdf.gz files cannot be opened with acrobat reader or kpdf or xpdf...
they need to be decompressed somewhere and then opened... and eventually
one needs to get rid of the uncompressed document... this is just
useless burden...
3) in any case, hard disk space is nowadays is cheap... compressing
documentation that already has compact formats saves little in space or
cost, but wastes a lot of time... If one has space, then uncompressed
documentation is better. If one has no space, probably he would not
install documentation at all.
please do not gzip PDF files (a different story are postscript
documents... postscript is very space inefficient and ps.gz files can be
opened directly by tools such as gv).
** Affects: texlive-base (Ubuntu)
Importance: Undecided
Status: Unconfirmed
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Gzipping documentation makes no sense
https://launchpad.net/bugs/83559
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