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Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed > pdflatex generating bloated PDFs
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Busser, Jim |
Subject: |
Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed > pdflatex generating bloated PDFs |
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Thu, 24 Nov 2011 15:41:22 +0000 |
On 2011-11-24, at 1:38 AM, Karsten Hilbert wrote:
> IMHO:
>
> - buy a disk
We are not only talking "buy a terabyte disk". Think of bandwidth. Think of
alternative storage (where a split across CD or DVD for certain things is very
legitimate).
Text which is only 8K made into a PDF which is 80K is bad enough but if
(avoidably) made into 240K PDF … this means a comprehensive export of a single
patient, if it had 100 PDFs each averaging 2.5 pages means
100 * 2.5 * 240K = 600Mb
this cannot be sent, encrypted, by email and even just incorporating the
free-text-entered GNUmed notes *as* PDF could make it not fit onto a CD (though
extra scripting / compression could very well make it possible).
So while I do not disagree with the order (i.e. I can agree 'buy a disk'
remains first) there is IMO not a big separation between
personal task 1
and
project task 2
: - )
-- Jim
- [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed > pdflatex generating bloated PDFs, Busser, Jim, 2011/11/23
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed > pdflatex generating bloated PDFs, Busser, Jim, 2011/11/23
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed > pdflatex generating bloated PDFs, Busser, Jim, 2011/11/23
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed > pdflatex generating bloated PDFs, Busser, Jim, 2011/11/23
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed > pdflatex generating bloated PDFs, Eric MAEKER, 2011/11/24
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed > pdflatex generating bloated PDFs, Busser, Jim, 2011/11/24
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed > pdflatex generating bloated PDFs, Busser, Jim, 2011/11/24
Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed > pdflatex generating bloated PDFs, Karsten Hilbert, 2011/11/24
- Re: [Gnumed-devel] GNUmed > pdflatex generating bloated PDFs,
Busser, Jim <=