Two for the road, Report from Clerk & Nonstandard Subtotals

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 08:22:22AM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:14:46AM -0600, Lerebours, Jose may or may not have
> proven themselves an utter git by pronouncing:
> > PDF documents, however, have become a pain in my ears.  I have
> 
> Never insert anything in your ear that's smaller than your elbow.  PDF's
> are notoriously BLOATED, and thus should not be hurting your ears unless
> inserted with the Jaws of Life device.  

Let's remember that PDF's don't *need* to be bloated.

You can bloat a PDF either by including lots of fonts (which may or may
not be necessary), or by inadvertantly building the wrong *kind* of
PDF: a rendered page image wrapped in a PDF file is *not* what you
want, usually.

Though if you're handing it directly to, say, HylaFAX, instead of
mailing it, this may be less critical.  I'll be experimenting with
jetfax and ghostpcl this week for a client; More When I Know More<tm>.

Cheers,
-- jra
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