Mini-Mini computer scans

From: Sellam Ismail <foo_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Jan 9 13:20:32 2002

On Wed, 9 Jan 2002, Hans B Pufal wrote:

> In general I agree with you that PDF files seem to be bloated. In this
> case however the .pdf file (1,463,895 bytes) of 6 .png images was
> smaller than a zip (1,940,938 bytes) of the same 6 .png images. So
> (for this particular case) PDF was 25% more efficient than zip!

My guess is that it did some sort of image down-sampling.

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