Re: New Wolfram Tutorial Collection documentation is ready
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- Subject: [mg99310] Re: New Wolfram Tutorial Collection documentation is ready
- From: Thomas Muench <thomas.muench at gmail.com>
- Date: Sat, 2 May 2009 06:00:47 -0400 (EDT)
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Dear Bob, it gets even better: There is also an option "Reduce size" in Acrobat. That reduces the size of the "Visualizatio and Graphics" to under 4MB!!!!. What happens there is that the graphics become downsamples and less crisp. That is visible upon printout, but not disturbingly so if you don't compare it directly to the original. For on-screen viewing it is perfectly fine. So, if Wolfram would maybe offer 2 options for pdf download - low quality (for screen) and high quality (for printout) - that would even be more user friendly. Best, thomas On Fri, May 1, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Bob F <deepyogurt at gmail.com> wrote: > On May 1, 3:24 am, Thomas M=FCnch <thomas.mue... at gmail.com> wrote: >> I downloaded all of the PDFs, and it took a very long time, even on my >> fast connection at work. My guess is that Wolfram gives these >> downloads less bandwidth compared to, for example, downloading >> software, or the curated data. But I would say that's all right. >> >> The largest of the files is "Visualization and graphics", which comes >> at almost 140MB. I opened it in Acrobat (Professional version), and >> simply out of curiosity removed all the Metadata and hidden >> information in the pdf (You can do this under the Menu item "Document> E= xamine Document...", at least under Windows). After doing this, and >> >> saving the file, the size was reduced to less than 30 MB, just a bit >> over one fifth of the original! On first visual inspection, the two >> versions appear to be identical. >> >> This particular file contains lots of graphics, so the reduction in >> size might not be as large in other files, I didn't try. But anyways, >> this begs the question: did I remove ANY functionality by doing this? >> If not, it would be much nicer if Wolfram could place PDFs of reduced >> size for download on their website. >> >> thomas >> > > I tried what you did for all the files and the total size for all 23 > files dropped from about 362 MB to about 188 MB, so this amounts to > about a 50% decrease in file size. Seems like quite a lot of overhead. > Wonder what all this extra stuff was??? > > -Bob