From john.maindonald at anu.edu.au  Tue Jan 24 09:30:38 2012
From: john.maindonald at anu.edu.au (John Maindonald)
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:30:38 +1100
Subject: [Rd] Failure to get compactPDF to compact a pdf file
Message-ID: <99653988-422A-48FA-BC50-DDEB12C90F32@anu.edu.au>

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?

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

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