Re: merging pdf (repost)

[Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>]

At 14:29 07/08/2003 +0200, you wrote:
>Hello, I use this code to merge file1.pdf, file2.pdf, file3.pdf  in
>file4.pdf
>
>% format=english
>\definepapersize[A3large][width=320mm,height=450mm,offset=0pt]
>\setuppapersize[A3,landscape][A3large,landscape]
>\setuplayout
>     [backspace=0pt,marking=on,
>      height=middle,width=middle,location=middle,
>      topspace=0pt,
>      header=0pt,
>      footer=0pt]
>\starttext';
>
>\insertpages[file1.pdf][width=0pt]
>\insertpages[file2.pdf][width=0pt]
>\insertpages[file3.pdf][width=0pt]
>\stoptext
>
>where
>file1 is    481 031 bytes
>file2 is  1 277 167 bytes and
>file3 is     43 574 bytes. I expected ~2 Mbytes for file4.pdf but
>file4 is 10 601 693 bytes, ie ~five times the size expected.
>Why ?
>
>Thanks in advance
>luigi
>
>PS.
>I have a context distribution that is 1 year old, but i can't actually
>upgrade it (well, if I must do it, I will do !)

maybe an not supported compression scheme?

in a couple of weeks a new tex live is out, so a newer pdftex (xpdf lib) 
may have solvedthe problem.

Hans
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