Huge postscript files (was Re: [m-dev.] for review: --dead-code)

[Tyson Dowd]

On 22-Jul-2000, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> I wanted to have a look at that paper, but I can't read it on screen, and
> converting it to postscript with acroread generates a 189 Mb .ps file :-(,
> which means it is too big to be printed. Anyone know a non-brain-damaged
> pdf-to-ps converter?

acroread does a pretty good job of this if you tell it to use Postscript
Level 2 (or maybe even 3) rather than level 1 only.  This option is
available in the printing window.

I stopped using level 1 altogether since it was just generating huge
files all the time.

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