Re: Minimum file length.

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 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

lm type 1 in pftex is less efficient than opentype in xetex/luatex

there may also be some different initial overhead per engine


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