Re: [Rd] Failure to get compactPDF to compact a pdf file

2012-01-25 Thread Uwe Ligges
On 24.01.2012 22:22, John Maindonald wrote: Quoting from the R-2.14.1 help page for compactPDF: " This by default makes use of 'qpdf', available fromhttp://qpdf.sourceforge.net/> (including as a Windows binary) and included with the CRAN Mac OS X distribution of R. If 'gs_cmd' is no

Re: [Rd] Failure to get compactPDF to compact a pdf file

2012-01-24 Thread John Maindonald
Quoting from the R-2.14.1 help page for compactPDF: " This by default makes use of 'qpdf', available from http://qpdf.sourceforge.net/> (including as a Windows binary) and included with the CRAN Mac OS X distribution of R. If 'gs_cmd' is non-empty, GhostScript will used instead. " The def

Re: [Rd] Failure to get compactPDF to compact a pdf file

2012-01-24 Thread Prof Brian Ripley
On 24/01/2012 08:30, John Maindonald wrote: I am failing to get compactPDF to make any change to a pdf file that, a/c to the message from the CRAN upload site, can be very substantially compacted. Any ideas what may be wrong? AFAICS you are quoting a message from R-devel, which tries to find '