contatenate fax in pdf

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Hi,

On Sun, Apr 18, 1999 at 03:43:09PM +0200, Marc SCHAEFER 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).

Ummm, well, yes - but: the "i.ps" file isn't compressed either, so the PDF
file shouldn't become much larger than that...

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

Yeup :)

gert
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