[lug] printing pdfs to postscript printers

[Ken Weinert]

On Thu, 2004-07-22 at 09:55, Elyse M. Grasso wrote:

> This file size explosion is especially surprising since pdf and postscript are 
> both Adobe formats, and pdf is supposed to be derived from postscript. Is 
> this really normal?

It depends on the PDF, but the postscript streams (and any images or
fonts) are probably compressed in the PDF which, of course, they can't
be in the postscript file.

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