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[nycphp-talk] Compressing PDF's

Jeff Knight jeffknight at mac.com
Wed Jul 9 16:02:19 EDT 2003


I was able to .zip my printer manual from 3.33MB to 2.33.


On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 03:31  PM, Edward Potter wrote:

> Hmmm, I would suspect that Adobe has compressed their PDF's as far as 
> possible?
>
> Kinda of like trying to compress an .mp3? Of course I could be totally 
> wrong, since I have not tried.
>
>  -e
>
>
>
> On Wednesday, July 9, 2003, at 03:23 PM, Hans Zaunere wrote:
>
>>
>> Hey Jerry,
>>
>> Jerry Kapron wrote:
>>> Does anyone know of a way to compress an *existing* raw PDF (ascii) 
>>> file in
>>> LAMP environment?
>>
>> Since PDF is just text, why not gzip, bzip2 or even zip?  For example,
>>
>> $compressed = `/usr/bin/gzip -c something.pdf`;
>>
>> [those are backticks]
>>
>> And I think newer versions of PHP support this type of thing 
>> internally via http://us2.php.net/zlib
>>
>> H
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