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Thu Oct 2 05:55:10 EDT 2003 · https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-dev/2003-October/038509.html

On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Fred L. Drake, Jr. wrote:

> Interesting.  bzip2 saves half a MB over gzip for the HTML and
> PostScript formats.

If you're producing PDF, why produce Postscript?  AFAIK, Ghostscript
digests PDF and can generate Postscript for those that have/want to use a
Postscript printer.  Around here, print shops seem to actually _prefer_
PDF.

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