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From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Cc: Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com>
Subject: Re: Clarification on methods of toggling maximum compression
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:57:22 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <502591D2.1020706@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344637191.32545.85.camel@kip-laptop>

On 11-8-2012 00:19, Kip Warner wrote:
> Hey list,
>
> I've noticed at least three methods of setting what I think is the
> generated PDF to maximum compression.

the official way, plays nicely with pdf standards:

> \setupbackend[level=9]

pretty low level, might even disappear (overloaded):

> \pdfcompresslevel9

low level, but wil stay:

> \maximumpdfcompression

> Are these all redundant? Do they do different things? Do I need but one
> to achieve the desired maximum compression of the resulting PDF?

keep in mind that max compression slows down processing and often not 
much is gained

Hans

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  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-10 22:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-10 22:19 Kip Warner
2012-08-10 22:57 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-08-10 23:00   ` Kip Warner
2012-08-10 23:05     ` Hans Hagen
2012-08-10 23:26       ` Kip Warner
2012-08-11 10:02         ` Hans Hagen
2012-08-11 18:32           ` Kip Warner

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