OT: PC World are useless - was Re: [Gllug] OT: microdirect.co.ukreliable?

[Bruce Richardson]

On Wed, Jan 19, 2005 at 09:33:19AM +0000, Tethys wrote:
> 
> Bruce Richardson writes:
> 
> >Leaving aside the fact that many editors (e.g. Vim and Emacs) can edit
> >compressed files in situ, what is to stop you compressing the file after
> >you've written it?  
> 
> PDF is a structured file format. It's not like OO.o or gnumeric, where
> the whole file is compressed with gzip (spit!).

Well, you may spit but it seems more accessible than the PDF approach...

> Rather, individual parts
> of it are LZW compressed. In theory, you could have something that read
> PDF in a plain text format (which doesn't exist -- it would have to be
> specifically created for this task), and then compress the relevant parts
> to create a normal PDF.

-- 
Bruce

I unfortunately do not know how to turn cheese into gold.
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