compress(), zlib and FlateDecode filter in PDF stream

[Dar Scott]

On Apr 17, 2005, at 10:20 AM, jbv wrote:

> Has anybody succeeded in using the compress() function
> on PDF data stream using the FlateDecode filter ?
> According to both docs (PDF ref and Rev), both compress()
> and FlateDecode are built around the public domain zlib
> library, but I didn't manage to include compressed data
> in a pdf file, nor to decompress any pdf data stream in
> Rev...

The Revolution compress() creates gzip which has a wrapper around the 
zlib format.  You can dig into the binary and do primitive zlib 
compression.  And decompression IF you know the length of the result.

Maybe, someday I'll make a library available.

Dar

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