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authorJay Berkenbilt <ejb@ql.org>2008-04-29 14:55:25 +0200
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+\" This file is not processed by autoconf, but rather by build.mk in
+\" the manual directory.
+.TH ZLIB-FLATE "1" "April 2008" "zlib-flate from qpdf version @PACKAGE_VERSION@" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+zlib-flate \- raw zlib compression program
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B qpdf
+\fI-compress | -uncompress\fR
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The zlib-flate program is part of the qpdf package.
+.PP
+The zlib-flate program standard from input and writes to standard
+output either compressing or compressing its input using raw zlib
+compression. This program is provided primarily as a debugging tool.
+It can be used to uncompress or compress raw PDF streams.
+.PP
+This program should not be used as a general purpose compression
+tool. Use something like gzip(1) instead.
+.PP
+For details about qpdf, please see the qpdf manual, which can be found
+in @docdir@/qpdf-manual.html or @docdir@/qpdf-manual.pdf.