From: Martin Langhoff Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2008 23:54:06 GMT Subject: Re: pack operation is thrashing my server Message-ID: <46a038f90808131654r228a1b57y964f7cdb9c77be5f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: On Thu, Aug 14, 2008 at 3:26 AM, David Tweed wrote: > FWIW, PDF format is a mix of sections of uncompressed higher level > ASCII notation and sections of compressed actual glyph/location data The PDF spec allows compression of the "text" sections - if a PDF is uncompressed, it's a good candidate for delta & compression. Unfortunately, within the same file you might have an embedded JPEG. cheers, m -- martin.langhoff@gmail.com martin@laptop.org -- School Server Architect - ask interesting questions - don't get distracted with shiny stuff - working code first - http://wiki.laptop.org/go/User:Martinlanghoff