From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/40875 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Wolfgang Schuster Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Minimum file length. Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 14:39:12 +0200 Message-ID: <20080503143912.553f9d55.schuster.wolfgang@googlemail.com> References: <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 1209818453 13283 80.91.229.12 (3 May 2008 12:40:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2008 12:40:53 +0000 (UTC) To: ntg-context@ntg.nl Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat May 03 14:41:28 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 1JsH3O-00081c-OZ for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 May 2008 14:41:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BD47D1FC6F; Sat, 3 May 2008 14:40:36 +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 15238-04-5; Sat, 3 May 2008 14:39:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7AA511FC44; Sat, 3 May 2008 14:39:54 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBECA1FC44 for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 14:39:52 +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 15238-04-4 for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 14:39:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fk-out-0910.google.com (fk-out-0910.google.com [209.85.128.189]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF7BF1FC43 for ; Sat, 3 May 2008 14:39:18 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: by fk-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id 18so230409fks.2 for ; Sat, 03 May 2008 05:39:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: by 10.86.70.11 with SMTP id s11mr5463265fga.71.1209818357923; Sat, 03 May 2008 05:39:17 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from rover ( [91.41.112.194]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id d6sm3459751fga.2.2008.05.03.05.39.15 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sat, 03 May 2008 05:39:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200805030750.06124.john@wexfordpress.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.5.0beta2 (GTK+ 2.10.14; i686-pc-mingw32) 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:40875 Archived-At: On Sat, 3 May 2008 07:50:05 -0400 John Culleton 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________