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Message: <blockquote data-quote="tarchon" data-source="post: 575702" data-attributes="member: 5990">You have to unzip it and then use an Acrobat PDF file viewer on it.Generally speaking, compressing single PDF files is pointless since Adobe's internal compression scheme is very efficient as it is.  It is actually possible that compressing an already compressed format will even make it bigger, though in this case you do get a whopping 5% compression.These days, the vast majority of application file formats already have compression in them (Word doc has had it since 97 I think, though it does leave some room for futher compression), so ZIP only makes a lot of sense with text and some of the verbose portability formats like RTF which use a lot of text tags (HTML, VRML, GEDCOM, etc).  Another cute compression fact is that contemporary modem protocols build in compression algorithms (modems are so slow that contemporary processors can easily analyze and compress big chunks of data faster than the modem transmits), so over a slow phone connection where many people think it's most needed, file compression at the server really provides little benefit in transfer speed even if it is a compressible format.In short, look before you ZIP.The class looks OK on first glance.  I was kind of curious why it was called "Learned Sorcerer" in the subject though.</blockquote>