On Wed 17 Jan 2018 at 21:04:03 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Wed, Jan 17, 2018 at 06:21:31PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > On Wed 10 Jan 2018 at 21:01:13 +0100, to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > > [...] > > > > Thanks for actually trying out. I stand corrected... > > > > A gracious response. However, my data were in the context of using a2ps > > to go from text to PS. Your "hefty PDFs" would be entirely correct if > > paps had been used for the conversion. The result is a 156551 sized file > > for me. gs2pdf comes up with a whopping 11540827 and takes 18 s to do so. > > Heh. I've been called all sort of names, but gracious... :-) > > > That was in 2015, Debian's paps does not relect the existence of a > > 7.0 version. I wonder why? > > Yes, that might be the root of my dim memories. > > Thanks for your thorough investigation
Anyone can take part. Supporting data is always an advantage, Anyway, I think I'll abandon my flirtation with paps and return to something more suitable for efficiently converting text to a searchable PDF. -- Brian.
