Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

[Werner LEMBERG]

> Here's some other compression solutions. This page points out that
> the tradeoff for squishing is lower quality images and text.

Link missing?

> In this day of gigabyte this an terabyte that, does a large PDF
> matter very much?

IMHO yes.  Today, PDF files are loaded *and* displayed in a browser.
The larger the file, the longer it takes until it gets displayed.
Additionally, an optimized PDF gets (normally) processed faster, which
is thus also of benefit.


    Werner