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From: new@ee.udel.edu (Darren New)
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Subject: Re: Adobe documents on NeXT & Display PostScript
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Date: 28 Jan 91 22:02:55 GMT
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In article <84525@unix.cis.pitt.edu> haugelan@unix.cis.pitt.edu (John Haugeland) writes:
>1)  Why are the files so big, given that the documents are short. For
>    instance, according to the "Developer Technical Resources Catalog," 
>    the document called "Display PostScript System: NeXT Overview" is
>    11 pages; but according to the "Index of Documents" from the Adobe
>    file server, the PostScript file is 84k -- why?

I've looked at these.  I believe it is the ones created with FrameMaker
that are the big ones. I'm not sure I remember right, but anybody with
the files can tell just by looking at the first few lines, so no
flames, please.  It appears as if each page contains most or all
of the prolog.  This slows down the printing and makes the files
really big.  Also, a hint: if you only want to print out a few
pages, page one must be first; it seems to define something that
the other pages use that I didn't feel the need to track down.
Note that the file about scrolling, while only 14 pages, is several
meg beccause of the pictures included.

On the other hand, they all printed on our laserwriters, which is
more than I can say for many TeX-originated postscript files.
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