From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/463 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Linux Acroread memory link with Context Date: Mon, 31 May 1999 01:33:02 +0200 Sender: owner-ntg-context@let.uu.nl Message-ID: <3751CAAE.6B0BDCA5@wxs.nl> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035391321 24263 80.91.224.250 (23 Oct 2002 16:42:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Oct 2002 16:42:01 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Context List Original-To: Matthew.Baker@gmd.de Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:463 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context:463 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | fax: 038 477 53 74 | www.pragma-ade.nl -----------------------------------------------------------------