Re: Beta page (pdfs)

Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> 2010/9/16 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Yeah, if you use the available open-source tools, that's the sort of
>> size you get. �It's possible that we could make the PDF smaller if we
>> passed it through Acrobat afterwards, but I'm not especially eager
>> to inject a commercial app into the build process.

> Perhaps there's another tool that can generate it for us? Or does the
> new pdf format use some secret new compression method?

The PDF format specs are public (and even an ISO standard now) --- but
considering that 1.7 is only a couple of years old, it's fair to worry
about how much software can read it successfully.
        regards, tom lane