deflatestream

I'm playing around with the ability to create pdf files through C# code. I have been looking at the PDF specifications and have been able to create a working PDF file, done by taking strings of data and encoding them into byte arrays using the UTF8 Encoding. The problem I run into is when I try to use the DeflateStream on the pdf stream objects. It just doesn't seem to work: Here is the text version of the pdf object that is in question ( \r\n is at the end of each line, just not visible here): 5 0 obj <</Length 45>> stream BT 70 50 TD /F1 12 Tf (Hello, world!) Tj ET endstream endobj When I

I'm trying to use deflate/gzip streams in C# but it appears that the files after compression are bigger than before. For example, I compress a docx file of 900ko, but it produce a 1.4Mo one ! And it does it for every file I tried. May be I am wrong in the way I'm doing it? Here is my code : FileStream input = File.OpenRead(Environment.CurrentDirectory + "/file.docx"); FileStream output = File.OpenWrite(Environment.CurrentDirectory + "/compressedfile.dat"); GZipStream comp = new GZipStream(output, CompressionMode.Compress); while (input.Position != input.Length) comp.WriteByte((byte)input

I need to zip and unzip string Here is code: public static byte[] ZipStr(String str) { using (MemoryStream output = new MemoryStream()) using (DeflateStream gzip = new DeflateStream(output, CompressionMode.Compress)) using (StreamWriter writer = new StreamWriter(gzip)) { writer.Write(str); return output.ToArray(); } } and public static string UnZipStr(byte[] input) { using (MemoryStream inputStream = new MemoryStream(input)) using (DeflateStream gzip = new DeflateStream(inputStream, CompressionMode.Decompress)) using (StreamReader reader = new StreamReader(gzip)) { reader.ReadToEnd(); return