Peter,
On 7 Jul 2000, at 12:52, Peter Gerwinski wrote:
I just got the information that such a PDF version would need 50 MB (or 9 MB compressed), so better let's forget about that. ;-)
I'm not sure of the details of your information, but I ran the GPC.PS file obtained from the Web site through Adobe Acrobat Distiller 3.02, and the resulting PDF was 1.28 MB. Compressed with PC-Zip, it's about 1.05 MB.
However, that version suffers from (a) the type 3 bitmapped fonts present in the PS file, and (b) no hyperlinking. Normally, I would run the Texinfo files through PDFTeX (to get type 1 fonts and hyperlinks), but the latest GPC documentation revisions appear to trip a bug in MiKTeX, so I can't generate a "good" PDF at the moment. However, a PDF generated via PDFTeX for the 991030 version of GPC was about 1.21 MB.
So 50 MB for a PDF sounds a bit off the mark! ;-)
-- Dave