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[Ross Moore]

Hi Dick,

On 24/05/2010, at 6:36 AM, Richard Koch wrote:

> c) Direct inspection of the pdf file shows lots of compressed  
> information. It would be nice to have that file
> in uncompressed form. Google suggests that a free program named  
> pdftk can do that, but the version of
> the program I found for OS X couldn't handle PDF-1.5 files.

Cannot you insert  \pdfminorversion=4  (or 3 or 2)
I don't believe there is anything in it that is beyond PDF 1.2.
(touchwood!)

> Can anyone uncompress that pdf file?

Attached. I've left the text in.
It's easy enough to avoid the font and metric information.

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> Even
> better, remove the line which inserts text, typeset, and then  
> uncompress, hoping for a pdf file as short
> and simple as possible.

Here is the main object.

>>> 8 0 obj
>>> <</Length 598
>>> >>
>>> stream
>>> 0 g 0 G
>>> 0 g 0 G
>>> 0 g 0 G
>>> 1 0 0 1 25.23 25.579 cm
>>> q
>>> 0 G
>>> 0 g
>>> 0.3985 w
>>> q
>>> q
>>> 0.14943 w
>>> 0.0 0.0 m
>>> 24.65785 0.0 m
>>> 24.65785 13.68492 13.68492 24.65785 0.0 24.65785 c
>>> -13.68492 24.65785 -24.65785 13.68492 -24.65785 0.0 c
>>> -24.65785 -13.68492 -13.68492 -24.65785 0.0 -24.65785 c
>>> 13.68492 -24.65785 24.65785 -13.68492 24.65785 0.0 c
>>> h
>>> 0.0 0.0 m
>>> S
>>> Q
>>> 0.0 0.0 m
>>> S
>>> q
>>> q
>>> 1 0 0 1 -16.051 -2.242 cm
>>> 1.0 0.0 0.0 1.0 0.0 0.0 cm
>>> q
>>> 0 G
>>> 0 g
>>> 1 0 0 1 -9.179 -23.337 cm
>>> BT
>>> /F8 9.9626 Tf 9.179 23.337 Td [(24.75pt)]TJ
>>> ET
>>> 1 0 0 1 9.179 23.337 cm
>>> Q
>>> 1 0 0 1 16.051 2.242 cm
>>> Q
>>> Q
>>> Q
>>> n
>>> Q
>>> 0 g 0 G
>>> 0 g 0 G
>>>
>>> endstream
>>> endobj



>
>
> Dick Koch
>
>
>
>
>>>> The following example was posted in MacOSX TeX mailing list
>>>>
>>>> \documentclass{article}
>>>> \usepackage{tikz}
>>>> \usepackage[papersize={51pt,51pt},margin=.5pt,centering]{geometry}
>>>> \begin{document}
>>>> \parindent 0pt
>>>> \begin{tikzpicture}
>>>> \draw[line width=.5pt] (0,0) circle (24.75pt);
>>>> \draw (0,0) node{24.75pt};
>>>> \end{tikzpicture}
>>>> \end{document}


Cheers,

	Ross

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