- From: Todd Fahrner <fahrner@pobox.com>
- Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 01:20:35 -0800
- To: "Makray Family" <mak@usa.nai.net>
- Cc: www-font@w3.org
At 9:33 PM -0500 11/7/96, Makray Family wrote: > > Acrobat. Get Acrobat 3 set up with your browser and see the examples >near > > the bottom of http://www.killersites.com/3-pdf/ . Contrary to popular > > belief, PDFs are often smaller than the equivalent material in HTML. > > You got to be kidding me?! PDF files are always aleast *200 times the >size > of an html page. Have you really seen a pdf file smaller than a html? You're mistaken. Many PDFs are carelessly generated, but the format is not inherently bloated. Yes, I've often produced PDFs of Web pages that are much smaller than the original. Point me to 5 random URLs and I'll make 5 PDFs that are smaller as a whole. Todd Fahrner mailto:fahrner@pobox.com http://www.verso.com
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