Hi all,

Given the few responses we have had so far on this topic, it seems that the OP 
is right: there are many, small programs available which can do most of what is 
required, but each of those programs then has specific applications which it 
can or cannot do. To make an "integrated" package, one would need to make a 
wrapper around all the programs, or start something new.

In my professional life I encounter a very similar problem, namely a multitude 
of (old) programs with a lot of overlap in their capabilities, but each with 
specific strengths. It takes forever to learn all the differences between the 
programs, and the time to make input files etc is much longer than necessary 
because you need to rewrite the inputs specifically for each program. I am 
trying to convince the Powers That Be that it would be better to reprogram the 
bulk - but the reply I always get is: "But it works, doesn't it?"

Later,
Wilfred

--- On Sat, 5/6/10, Martin Schröder <mar...@oneiros.de> wrote:

> From: Martin Schröder <mar...@oneiros.de>
> Subject: Re: [XeTeX] Python Project: PDF Optimization
> To: "Unicode-based TeX for Mac OS X and other platforms" <xetex@tug.org>
> Date: Saturday, 5 June, 2010, 11:16 PM
> 2010/6/5 Pablo Rodríguez <oi...@web.de>:
> > pdfopt cannot linearize some PDF files
> > (http://bugs.ghostscript.com/show_bug.cgi?id=690462#c2).
> 
> qpdf can.
> 
> And ps2pdf can downsample pdfs.
> 
> Best
>     Martin
> 
> 
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