From: Hans Hagen <pragma@wxs.nl>
To: Kip Warner <kip@thevertigo.com>
Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: Clarification on methods of toggling maximum compression
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 01:05:39 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <502593C3.3000305@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344639651.32545.88.camel@kip-laptop>
On 11-8-2012 01:00, Kip Warner wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 00:57 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>>> 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
>
> Hey Hans. My document shrinks from about 70 MB to 20MB with compression.
hm, suspicious
> But back to my original question, do I need all three or are they all
> redundant and only one of them I actually need? If only one is
> necessary, should I just use \setupbackend[level=9] ?
yes, that's best because as soon as that command is called, the set
value of 'level' is used, no matter what other values has been set
never use \pdf* commands directly .. way too low level and use the oher
command only for fast tests (i use it in small test files)
Hans
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-08-10 23:05 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
2012-08-10 23:00 ` Kip Warner
2012-08-10 23:05 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
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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