Re: Linux Acroread memory link with Context

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Matthew Baker wrote:

> So, to me it seems that it is either a Context or pdftex bug since the
> same images converted to PDF with Distiller don't cause problems.  Or if
> not a bug, something which triggers a bug in Linux Acroread that Distiller
> PDF files don't trigger.
> 
> For a test document, all I'm using is several pages of \startcombination
> ... \stopcombination with 9 images in each. Images are 256x384 pixels
> each, so they are not in any way unreasonably big.  I monitor memory usage
> by watching swap space in xosview.
> 
> Any ideas why this might happen?  Next step for me is to try something
> with plain pdftex and includegraphics commands to see if that causes the
> same problem.

This really sounds strange, because we have documents with hundreds of
illustrations and large bitmaps.

Technically context/pdftex uses an xobject, which is the appropriate
structure. You can set \pdfcompresslevel=0 and take a look at the file.
You can try to follow the object pointers. 

I'll ask Thanh too, 

Hans

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