
 SHORT DESCRIPTION

 PDZ program is experimental PDF compressor. It works good enough
 for large PDF files which contain mostly text and vector graphics,
 but gives poor results if the majority of the PDF file consists of
 fonts and raster images. Also, PDZ can't handle encrypted PDFs.

 PDZ sources conform to the ANSI-C standard and should be compiled
 without any problems. To build an executable, you need two libraries -
 BZIP2 (version 1.0) and ZLIB (version 1.1.3 only).

 PDZ sources have been obfuscated by COBF. There is a certain reason
 for it.


 COPYRIGHT NOTICE for this version of PDZ (v1.01).

 Noncommertial distribution of this version of PDZ is allowed on condition
 that all of the original files are included unmodified (including this
 copyright notice). You may also add compiled executables and other files
 (makefiles, for example).

 If you plan to do commercial distribution of PDZ, either as is,
 or as a part of another product, please write to the author to ask for
 permission first.

 And, of course, NO WARRANTIES. Use this program at your own risk.


 THANKS

 Thanks to all maintainers of DJGPP-compiler (http://www.delorie.com),
 which I used working on PDZ.

 Thanks to Bernhard Baier for his excellent obfuscator COBF
 (http://baier.tsx.org).


 CONTACT

 My homepage: http://ivzh.chat.ru
 My e-mail: ivzh@mail.ru
 Unfortunately, I have no regular access to the Internet at present,
 so I won't be able to answer promptly.


 FILES

 pdz.exe - DOS/Windows executable (compiled with DJGPP)
 cwsdpmi.exe - DOS-extender (needed if you launch PDZ under DOS)
 part*.c cobf.h - source files
 readme.txt
 readme.rus
 mkpdz.bat
 pdz.pif
 WINEXE/pdz.exe - native Windows executable (compiled with LCC)
