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 12:02:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <50262DB4.2010708@wxs.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344641215.32545.93.camel@kip-laptop>
On 11-8-2012 01:26, Kip Warner wrote:
> On Sat, 2012-08-11 at 01:05 +0200, Hans Hagen wrote:
>> hm, suspicious
>
> Really? It's over 300 pages in length and contains plenty of vector
> graphics (more text). But actually that 70 MB seems an overestimate and
> I must have been looking at something else.
>
>> 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
>
> Here is the result of some experimentation:
>
> 23,396,929 Bytes using just \setupbackend[level=9].
>
> 21,945,243 Bytes using the aforementioned, \pdfcompresslevel9, and
> \maximumpdfcompression.
>
> 23,396,827 Bytes using none of those three.
>
> So I guess I'm still not sure which one to use since the one you said
> should be sufficient doesn't seem to compress it fully.
>
>> 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)
I made
\setupbackend[level=9]
listen to that setting also if no 'format' is set. Also, in the report
at the end of a run, the compress levels are reported so that you can
check it.
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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
2012-08-10 23:26 ` Kip Warner
2012-08-11 10:02 ` Hans Hagen [this message]
2012-08-11 18:32 ` Kip Warner
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