8 Jan
2011
8 Jan
'11
2:54 p.m.
2011/1/8 Khaled Hosny
On Thu, Jan 06, 2011 at 07:25:42AM +0100, Martin Schröder wrote:
qpdf is MUCH better...
I take your word on this, but out of curiosity, better in what sense?
pdfopt is ghostscript, that is the pdf is fed into a PostScript RIP, which spits out linearized pdf. qpdf uses a pdf library and reorganizes the pdf so it is linearized. So it "knows" more about pdf than gs, is much lighter (one binary and one lib with together <1MB compared to ghostscript), much less can go wrong (e.g. images are not changed) and IMHO the support for qpdf is much better. :-) Best Martin