On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 06:04:48PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 01:31:27PM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> >
> > > Also, I *thought* all modern printers could understand and render PDF.
> > > Was I wrong about that?
> >
> > Yes, you were. PDF actually _is_ PostScript, just slightly transformed
> > and compressed for storage.
>
> Yet when I produce a pdf file and a postscript file, the pdf is usually
> much bigger. There must be something going on that's not just compression.
>
> -- hendrik
>

TBH, it's normally the opposite (i.e., ps is much larger than it's pdf
counterpart), but the pdf converter of libreoffice has traditionally
been a bit quirky, so I wouldn't be surprised at all. You might
probably want to try pdf2ps and then ps2pdf on those large ones?

My2Cents

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