Month: June 2007

Compress a pdf file?

PDF (Portable Document Format ) format is already optimized and he de facto standard for document publishing on the internet and other media.

A PDF file is often a combination of vector graphics, text, and raster graphics. The basic types of content in a PDF are:

* text stored as such
* vector graphics for illustrations and designs that consist of shapes and lines
* raster graphics for photographs and other types of image

Because all graphics and other stuff PDF file is optimized. You can use program such as Winzip or 7-Zip (or command line utility winzip/zip) to package and compress a pdf file. My personal experience shows that you will not gain much benefit from compressing a PDF file as compression ratio is very small.

I’d be interested to hear if you have other software program to consider when compressing a PDF (remember it must provide a good compression).

Top things you should look while buying a computer for Gaming

I’m looking to build a new computer for gaming purpose. I think any gaming system should consider following fast components :)
=> A fast Intel or AMD dual core processor / CPU (Intel core 2 extreme, is the latest in ass-kicking technology)

=> 1GB dual channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz

=> 512 MB Graphics card from ATI or NVIDIA (look for GeForce 8600 / 8800)

=> Good sound card (on board sound cards are quite good these days so you can same some money)

=> SATA 3.0 Gb/s hard disk (500G)

=> And most important good cabinet / chassis with 2 cooling fans with enough power supply

Dell / Alienware offers top of the line gaming and multimedia computer. Personally I prefer to build my own computer :)