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Re: OT - gzip & PostScript



Iftach Hyams <paraduma@exn.co.il> writes:

>  I have gziped some ps file, and, the result (half sized) could be printed
> (and viewed with ghostview).
>  Is that part of gzip capabilities ? A ps feature  ? A combination ?

I don't think either gzip or ps have anything to do with it. It's the tools
that you use.  You didn't give enough information about how you print
and view the file.  For instance, do you use ghostview (obsolete) or
gv - a successor to ghostview? From gv man pages:

Options
       filename
              The name of the file to  be  displayed.   The  file
              ending  ".ps" may be omitted.  "filename" may point
              to a  compressed  file  (gzipped,  zipped  or  com-
              pressed).   Viewing  PDF  files  requires  at least
              ghostscript version 4.x.

I don't want to guess how printing can be accomplished. There might
be a pipe along the road that gunzips the file on the fly.

-- 
Oleg Goldshmidt | BLOOMBERG L.P. (BFM) | oleg@bfr.co.il
"... We work by wit, and not by witchcraft;
 And wit depends on dilatory time." - W. Shakespeare.

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