[Rd] Failure to get compactPDF to compact a pdf file

[Prof Brian Ripley]

On 24/01/2012 08:30, John Maindonald wrote:
> I am failing to get compactPDF to make any change to a pdf file
> that, a/c to the message from the CRAN upload site, can be very
> substantially compacted.  Any ideas what may be wrong?

AFAICS you are quoting a message from R-devel, which tries to find 'gs' 
for you.  In R 2.14.1 you need to tell compactPDF where it is (assuming 
you do have it installed): see its help.

> I have also tried recreating the pdf file.  I also tried
> R CMD build --resave-data --compact-vignettes DAAG

Again, in R-devel you can do R CMD build --compact-vignettes=gs 
(assuming that is in your path or R_GSCMD is set), but not in R 2.14.1.

But I have already told you directly (and been ignored) that the problem 
is the excessive resolution of the embedded bitmap image which needs to 
be down-sampled.


> The data files compact alright (but I get the 'significantly better compression'
> warning message that might suggest that this is not happening), but the pdf
> file appears to go into the package unmodified.
>
> <<<<
>> tools::compactPDF('/Users/johnm/packages/DAAG/inst/doc/', gs_quality = "ebook")
>> dir('/Users/johnm/packages/DAAG/inst/doc/')
> [1] "rockArt.pdf"
>> sessionInfo()
> R version 2.14.1 (2011-12-22)
> Platform: x86_64-apple-darwin9.8.0/x86_64 (64-bit)
>
> locale:
> [1] C
>
> attached base packages:
> [1] stats     graphics  grDevices utils     datasets  methods   base
>
> loaded via a namespace (and not attached):
> [1] tools_2.14.1
>>>>>
>
>> From the Unix command line:
> jhm:doc johnm$ ls -lt /Users/johnm/packages/DAAG/inst/doc
> total 1368
> -rw-r--r--@ 1 johnm  staff  696762  2 Aug 12:35 rockArt.pdf
>
> Message from the CRAN upload site:
>
> * checking sizes of PDF files under ‘inst/doc’ ... NOTE
>   ‘gs’ made some significant size reductions:
>      compacted ‘rockArt.pdf’ from 680Kb to 58Kb
>   consider running tools::compactPDF(gs_quality = "ebook") on these files
>
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