Re: [PLUG] OT: Publisher 98 to PDF

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

Check out the tiger image.  This time the PDF is smaller than the PS
file.

http://dpagin.net


Leonard Rosenthol wrote:
> 
> At 3:05 PM -0400 5/1/02, Paul wrote:
> >The files are on http://dpagin.net/
> >
> 
>         Ah, the famous "colorcir.ps" - always a good one.
> 
>         The reason that the PS of this is much smaller than the PDF
> is the one of the core differences between PS and PDF.  PS is a
> programming language (based on Forth), while PDF is a declarative
> file format.
> 
>         colorcir.ps takes advantage of the programming aspects of PS
> by creating a subroutine to generate the colors, and then simply
> calling that routine multiple times with different parameters.   In
> the PDF,  however, each line has to be specified individually.
> 
> Leonard
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