RE: [semi-OT] PDFs vs. Word (was Re: Comments and questions)

["Robert J. Hansen" <rjhansen@xxxxxxxx>]

> than the original file.  I'll ignore the flamefest wars about lossy
> compression, etc.  It's not always smaller, but normally it is.  The size
> difference is important when you're trying to distribute the
> material to as

PDF uses Lempel-Ziv-Welch (LZW) compression, which is lossless.  :)  Any
images embedded in the PDF may use JPEG or other lossy compression schemes,
but most of the document is compressed with a lossless algorithm.