Re: PostScript files from PDF files

[Meg -dot- Fortino -at- MARCAM -dot- COM]

     We ran some tests on a book, and we found a slight decrease in
     PostScript size using Acrobat 3.0.


     Original .ps file                  =       1,682,436
     -----------------------
     Acrobat Distiller 2.0 .pdf file    =         439,057
     Acrobat Reader 2.1 .ps file        =       1,776,984
     Acrobat Reader 3.0 .ps file        =       1,265,317
     Acrobat Exchange 3.0 .ps file      =       1,265,316
     -----------------------
     Acrobat Distiller 3.0 .pdf file    =         311,575
     Acrobat Reader 3.0 .ps file        =       1,224,917
     Acrobat Exchange 3.0 .ps file      =       1,224,916


Note: According to our tests on this one file:

1 - Acrobat Distiller 3.0 creates smaller .pdf files than Acrobat Distiller 2.0

2 - Acrobat Reader 3.0 produced a smaller .ps file than Acrobat Reader 2.1.
This is true regardless of whether the .pdf files was created with Acrobat
Distiller 2.0 or 3.0.

     Meg Fortino
     meg -dot- fortino -at- marcam -dot- com

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