From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/25090 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Why PDF files generated by ConTeXt are so big? Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:22:50 +0100 Message-ID: <43C4C05A.5090009@wxs.nl> References: <43BEA6CF.1070800@gmx.net> <89EB6AFB-2C67-4BC4-B141-C04D7F5A25E5@science.uva.nl> <43BFB90C.6060308@wxs.nl> <227466F7-6C41-47B4-A3B1-525D68788F02@free.fr> <43C2407F.1090303@wxs.nl> <36434073-921C-4BAA-889F-55CEB61C8F5C@free.fr> <43C2EB3D.1000301@wxs.nl> <43C43A28.60602@wxs.nl> <43C446C5.6060305@virgilio.it> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1136967803 25147 80.91.229.2 (11 Jan 2006 08:23:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 08:23:23 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Wed Jan 11 09:23:20 2006 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 ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EwbGI-0006eZ-N1 for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:23:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id BFFF612824; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:23:17 +0100 (CET) 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 22412-03-3; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:23:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ronja.vet.uu.nl (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id C894C127E8; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:23:12 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C6A9127E9 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:23:11 +0100 (CET) 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 22412-03-2 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:23:10 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from mail.pragma-ade.net (dsl-212-84-128-085.solcon.nl [212.84.128.85]) by ronja.ntg.nl (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AF6912775 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 09:22:50 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from [10.100.1.102] (unverified [10.100.1.102]) by controller-1 (SurgeMail 3.5b3) with ESMTP id 92 for ; Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:33:09 +0300 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (Windows/20050923) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users In-Reply-To: <43C446C5.6060305@virgilio.it> X-Server: High Performance Mail Server - http://surgemail.com r=-274017400 X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-1 X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ntg.nl X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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:25090 Archived-At: Jilani Khaldi wrote: > I have translated some docs from LaTeX to ConTeXt and I found that the > PDF files generated by ConTeXt are almost 3 times bigger than the ones > generated by LaTeX (*). Why all this difference? for that you need to look into the pdf file - are fonts embedded - how many fonts are used (maybe context has more granularity) - is the number of pages the same - is the compression level set to 9 - context uses a different hyperlink model etc best compare two 10 page docs and two 100 page docs another possibility is that there are more 'redundant' cm transforms (depends a bit); this is actually a pdftex problem but the latest/future versions will behave better also, the next version of pdftex will do object compression which means that files can get much smaller so, without examples i can't say much (how do 'hello world' docs compare?) Hans