Question about PDF manipulation

[Paul Koning]

>>>>> "der" == der Mouse <mouse at rodents.montreal.qc.ca> writes:

 >> PNG is a nice, open and flexible format which is designed to be
 >> the best cross-platform lossless image format.

 der> ...something it is noticeably worse at than the netpbm family
 der> (pbm, pgm, ppm).  (I can hardly imagine writing png-format image
 der> software without using a library.  I routinely do so with p?m
 der> formats.)

Sure, but that's because the netpbm formats are designed to be
maximally trivial, so they are extremely inefficient.  If you want
compression, it won't be trivial, ever.

	     paul