I don't get a lot of extra compression with .ZIP files on top of
.PDFs. 20% may be optimistic. How much extra compression you get depends
on the compression methodology used in the creation of the original PDF.
IMO, changing the PDFs to ZIPs is a lot of work to compress all those files
and change the page links for a marginal space-savings return. I'd
concentrate on finding a new hosting service.
Skip
At 12:43 AM 4/8/01 +0200, you wrote:
Hans,
> We also might want to consider making the .PDF files password activated or
> some other way to prevent spiders from crawling the site to pick up all
> those attachments.
>
> How much space does the eSIF take up with and without the .PDF files?
Have you thought about compressing all .PDF files ?
that should reduce at least 20 % af the data from pdf files.
(I just checked some files and used gzip on a UNIX-like system.
WinZip should do also a good job. you can easily decompress gzip'ed files
with WinZip or any other ZIP packer (but not vice versa because
gzip can only handle 1 file in an archive where winzip and other zippers
put many files in it -- historical reason for this)
ok, one disadvantage everyone HAS to HAVE a zip de/packer.
One advantage download of the files goes faster as the on the fly compression
of the modem is normaly not so good as precompressed stuff.
just my $0.02
Rudy
Berlin/Germany
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