dealing with these *huge* pdf files generated

Dr. Hawkins dochawk at gmail.com
Sun Jun 2 23:53:15 EDT 2013


On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:32 PM, stephen barncard <
stephenREVOLUTION2 at barncard.com> wrote:

> that's really odd, as I thought Postscript was designed to be frugal - the
> beginnings of desktop publishing used machines with 128k of RAM!
>
>  (  in the case if there is a bitmap present, all bets are off, because the
> size will explode trying to describe an image.)
>

As typically used, pdf is a  bastardized postscript, but without the power.

I'm still not convinced on pdf as a replacement.

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Dr. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq.
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