Luiz Augusto wrote:
I'm asking it because I've approximately 30GB of public domain scans in .pdf
format to upload on Commons on the next months (see
http://en.wikisource.org/w/index.php?oldid=928004#Royal_Society_Digital_Arc…
for further information on it) and because I fully agree to the reasons
listed on
https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11215#c3
Assuming that these are scanned documents that haven't been vectorized,
have you considered converting them to DjVu format? Not only does
Wikimedia currently have better support for it than PDF, but you might
realize some file size savings. Apparently, there's software out there
to more or less automate it.
Of course, that doesn't in any way preclude or remove the need for
_also_ improving our PDF support. But PDF, as common and useful as it
is, might not be the optimal format here.
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Ilmari Karonen