contatenate fax in pdf

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On Sun, 18 Apr 1999, Gert Doering wrote:

> [gert@noisy /tmp]$ ls -l i* ff*
> -rw-rw-r--   1 gert     gert     21315537 Apr 18 14:11 i.pdf
> -rw-rw-r--   1 gert     gert      4179313 Apr 18 14:10 i.ps
> 
> 21 Mbytes!!! as compared to below 1Mb for the G3 files:

That could be because gs doesn't use compressed-pdf at all because
there are some patents issue on the compression algorithm (from
memory).

Thanks for the demo, it's sometimes easier than one thinks :)