Re: Benefits of Cairo backend over Ghostscript for PDF

[kieren]

Hi Andrew,

> In this day of gigabyte this an terabyte that, does a large PDF matter 
> very much? What is the issue of concern?

1. For transferring/emailing, smaller is better for a number of reasons.

2. For those of us (e.g., Music Directors) who store and use multiple 
PDFs of complete musicals or operas (and, in the case of workshops, the 
associated scripts/libretti) on an iPad, the size of each PDF can make a 
huge difference, both in terms of the storage requirements and the 
responsiveness within the workflow.

Hope that helps clarify!
Kieren.