From: Wolfgang Schuster <schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com>
To: ntg-context@ntg.nl
Subject: Re: Minimum file length.
Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 14:39:12 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080503143912.553f9d55.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200805030750.06124.john@wexfordpress.com>
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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Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-05-03 11:50 John Culleton
2008-05-03 12:01 ` luigi scarso
2008-05-03 12:39 ` Wolfgang Schuster [this message]
2008-05-03 15:48 ` Hans Hagen
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