> I understand the motivation for PDF was speeding rendering, e.g. no > lexing of PostScript, and remove control flow so the linear > description of the page dominated render time, and not hard to > predict, or faulty, loops.
Another important issue is security. PS, as a programming language, allows far too much things. > I often run ps2pdf(1) on PDF files here, e.g. from -Tpdf, as it > often makes them use fewer bytes. If you want small PDF files, I suggest pdfsizeopt as a postprocessor. https://github.com/pts/pdfsizeopt Werner
