From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40873 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: John Culleton Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Minimum file length. Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 07:50:05 -0400 Organization: Able Indexers and Typesetters Message-ID: <200805030750.06124.john@wexfordpress.com> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1209815692 6420 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2008 11:54:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 11:54:52 +0000 (UTC) To: mailing list for ConTeXt users Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat May 03 13:55:26 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl ([131.211.172.88] helo=ronja.ntg.nl) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JsGKn-0003qS-Gx for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 13:55:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 64E791FC98; Sat, 3 May 2008 13:54:31 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11654-10-9; Sat, 3 May 2008 13:53:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 827DC1FBFD; Sat, 3 May 2008 13:53:43 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 985271FBFD for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 13:53:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 12293-02-13 for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 13:53:06 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from QMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.16]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77F41FBAA for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 13:52:42 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from OMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.12]) by QMTA01.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id LywW1Z0030FhH24A104M00; Sat, 03 May 2008 11:52:41 +0000 Original-Received: from c-76-21-130-0.hsd1.md.comcast.net ([76.21.130.0]) by OMTA08.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Lzse1Z00600fU5Y8U00000; Sat, 03 May 2008 11:52:41 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=U4BriyfjAAAA:8 a=qMoymCQNAAAA:8 a=e_DkmeUKAAAA:8 a=wNgDFYxWcwpUwORd4PsA:9 a=fsorZRpE7tnB9uDECrEA:7 a=jg8_smaaourKFfSK_1W8ud95B6MA:4 a=gi0PWCVxevcA:10 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 Content-Disposition: inline X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:40873 Archived-At: 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 -- John Culleton Resources for every author and publisher: http://wexfordpress.com/tex/shortlist.pdf http://wexfordpress.com/tex/packagers.pdf http://www.creativemindspress.com/newbiefaq.htm http://www.gropenassoc.com/TopLevelPages/reference%20desk.htm ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________