From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Huge PDFs
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2011 14:19:08 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4EFC68CC.8050409@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAG5iGsC3eoEAYyBXkf=tGgz+82kBUPVs7mdZfnoJQe5gA1GCtg@mail.gmail.com>
On 29-12-2011 13:45, luigi scarso wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 29, 2011 at 12:16 PM, Jan Heinen<JaHeinen@gmx.de> wrote:
>> Hello,
>>
>> lots of my images are huge 200x250mm. I reduce their size with:
>> \externalfigure[cow][width=20mm, heigth=25mm]
>>
>> After generating the PDF, the pdf is very huge.
>>
>> 1. Can't Context put the reduced image into the PDF?
>> 2. How can I generate one PDF version for printing (300dpi) and one for the
>> screen (72dpi)?
>>
>> I am using Context mk-IV.
> no, you need something like ghostscript.
> In this case (if you have not problems of space and time) it's better
> to transform the pdf in ps with
> pdftops yourfile.pdf
> and then apply ghostscript to the final ps (see the documentation
> about ghostscript)
ghostscript can do that directly with the pdf (no need to go through ps)
(also see:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.tex.context/71919/match=lowres)
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-29 13:19 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-29 11:16 Jan Heinen
2011-12-29 12:45 ` luigi scarso
2011-12-29 13:19 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2011-12-29 13:32 ` luigi scarso
2011-12-29 16:34 ` Jan Heinen
2011-12-29 16:57 ` luigi scarso
2011-12-29 18:44 ` Jan Heinen
2011-12-29 18:47 ` Hans Hagen
2011-12-29 14:46 Jan Heinen
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