* Minimum file length.
@ 2008-05-03 11:50 John Culleton
2008-05-03 12:01 ` luigi scarso
2008-05-03 12:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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From: John Culleton @ 2008-05-03 11:50 UTC (permalink / raw)
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I am writing an e-book where pdf file length is an issue. For the
minimal "Hello world" file I get the following lengths:
tex+dvips+ps2pdf 2820
pdftex 5630
texexec 22,173
The only thing I added to the last test was the \starttext and
\stoptext tags. The dvips etc. test defaulted to pdf 1.2,
the other two to pdf 1.4. I don't doubt that with more text the counts
would be more similar. Still the fourfold increase between the second
test and the third is a stunner. The e-book must be limited to 2 megs
per the publisher.
Just fyi
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* Re: Minimum file length.
2008-05-03 11:50 Minimum file length John Culleton
@ 2008-05-03 12:01 ` luigi scarso
2008-05-03 12:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster
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From: luigi scarso @ 2008-05-03 12:01 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Sat, May 3, 2008 at 1:50 PM, John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> I am writing an e-book where pdf file length is an issue. For the
> minimal "Hello world" file I get the following lengths:
> tex+dvips+ps2pdf 2820
> pdftex 5630
> texexec 22,173
what about fonts of each pdf ?
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* Re: Minimum file length.
2008-05-03 11:50 Minimum file length John Culleton
2008-05-03 12:01 ` luigi scarso
@ 2008-05-03 12:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster
2008-05-03 15:48 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Wolfgang Schuster @ 2008-05-03 12:39 UTC (permalink / raw)
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On Sat, 3 May 2008 07:50:05 -0400
John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
> I am writing an e-book where pdf file length is an issue. For the
> minimal "Hello world" file I get the following lengths:
> tex+dvips+ps2pdf 2820
> pdftex 5630
> texexec 22,173
>
> The only thing I added to the last test was the \starttext and
> \stoptext tags. The dvips etc. test defaulted to pdf 1.2,
> the other two to pdf 1.4. I don't doubt that with more text the counts
> would be more similar. Still the fourfold increase between the second
> test and the third is a stunner. The e-book must be limited to 2 megs
> per the publisher.
You could use XeTeX or LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX.
My example
\starttext
Hello World!
\stoptext
with the file size for each engine:
pdfTeX: 21.355
XeTeX: 3.155
LuaTeX: 3.328
Wolfgang
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* Re: Minimum file length.
2008-05-03 12:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster
@ 2008-05-03 15:48 ` Hans Hagen
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From: Hans Hagen @ 2008-05-03 15:48 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> On Sat, 3 May 2008 07:50:05 -0400
> John Culleton <john@wexfordpress.com> wrote:
>
>> I am writing an e-book where pdf file length is an issue. For the
>> minimal "Hello world" file I get the following lengths:
>> tex+dvips+ps2pdf 2820
>> pdftex 5630
>> texexec 22,173
>>
>> The only thing I added to the last test was the \starttext and
>> \stoptext tags. The dvips etc. test defaulted to pdf 1.2,
>> the other two to pdf 1.4. I don't doubt that with more text the counts
>> would be more similar. Still the fourfold increase between the second
>> test and the third is a stunner. The e-book must be limited to 2 megs
>> per the publisher.
>
> You could use XeTeX or LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX.
>
> My example
>
> \starttext
> Hello World!
> \stoptext
>
> with the file size for each engine:
>
> pdfTeX: 21.355
> XeTeX: 3.155
> LuaTeX: 3.328
lm type 1 in pftex is less efficient than opentype in xetex/luatex
there may also be some different initial overhead per engine
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