[Info-vax] Knock knock, anyone there?

[Paul Sture]

On 2014-09-30, Simon Clubley
<clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
> On 2014-09-30, Paul Sture <nospam at sture.ch> wrote:
>> On 2014-09-30, Simon Clubley
>> <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> wrote:
>>> On 2014-09-29, mcleanjoh at gmail.com <mcleanjoh at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> Did everyone see the statement from VSI dated September 12?
>>>>
>>>> http://www.vmssoftware.com/pdfs/VSI_DrawerSt_v2.pdf
>>>>
>>>
>>> No I didn't; thanks for the link.
>>>
>>> Seeing the MA based address makes me think they should have set
>>> themselves up back in the Old Mill and hence come full circle. :-)
>>
>> ISTR reading an article within the last year that it's occupied.
>>
>
> I remember that as well but I thought it had been divided up into
> multiple business units (just like I read it used to be when DEC was
> originally starting out).

Yes I recall it being multiple business units now.

>>> BTW, they need to work on their PDF creation skills.
>>>
>>> 1.5MB for a single of of text with a little logo ? Really ? :-)
>>
>> That's down to the logo. 5104 x 1404 pixels - it includes the "Software"
>> text.
>>
>
> Wow. :-(
>
> It seems few people know how to optimise for size these days.

I reduced the image to 300 dpi, leaving the rest of the page alone and got
the total file size down to 146K.

Easy when you have the right tools (PDFpenPro on OS X; the downloaded
document was produced by Word on OS X...) :-)

>
> PS: "few" because I'm having similar issues with Atmel datasheets at
> the moment; in recent years they have grown to stupid sizes even though
> the actual content is still comparable in type and page count. As an
> example, the datasheet for a specific MCU, which used to be well under
> 10MB a number of years ago, is now over 30MB.

XML structuring has a lot of overhead and is the reason various document
formats are compressed.


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