LZW compression

Alex Rice alex at mindlube.com
Sat Jan 3 03:14:52 EST 2004


On Jan 2, 2004, at 7:58 PM, Alejandro Tejada wrote:
>
> Actually, Gzip is really the same FlateEncode that
> PDF accepts too. So, maybe you could skip
> the use of LZW.
>
> I'm sure that PDF understand JPEG compression too.
>
> There is another compression that Revolution
> supports that could be used in pdf files.
> Maybe is base64 encode, but I'm not completely sure.

I thought the gzip compress() was Rev's only compression feature?

re: base64Encode it converts the data to all ASCII suitable for MIME 
attachements. The size is much larger than the source data.

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