From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.comp.tex.context/77881 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hans Hagen Newsgroups: gmane.comp.tex.context Subject: Re: Clarification on methods of toggling maximum compression Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:02:28 +0200 Message-ID: <50262DB4.2010708@wxs.nl> References: <1344637191.32545.85.camel@kip-laptop> <502591D2.1020706@wxs.nl> <1344639651.32545.88.camel@kip-laptop> <502593C3.3000305@wxs.nl> <1344641215.32545.93.camel@kip-laptop> Reply-To: mailing list for ConTeXt users NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; Format="flowed" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1344679372 17808 80.91.229.3 (11 Aug 2012 10:02:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2012 10:02:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: mailing list for ConTeXt users To: Kip Warner Original-X-From: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Sat Aug 11 12:02:50 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([195.12.62.10]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1T08Wo-0007aL-Aa for gctc-ntg-context-518@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:02:42 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 12F8B1024B; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:02:41 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id InwMKzHEE4zJ; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:02:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE3F21022F; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:02:38 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5C01B10244 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:02:37 +0200 (CEST) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at balder.ntg.nl Original-Received: from balder.ntg.nl ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (balder.ntg.nl [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id Sufc8wo0Tn4b for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:02:36 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from filter4-til.mf.surf.net (filter4-til.mf.surf.net [194.171.167.220]) by balder.ntg.nl (Postfix) with ESMTP id F3C031022F for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:02:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp.ziggozakelijk.nl (D57D1DA2.static.ziggozakelijk.nl [213.125.29.162]) by filter4-til.mf.surf.net (8.14.3/8.14.3/Debian-9.4) with ESMTP id q7BA2WvD021362 for ; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:02:35 +0200 X-Default-Received-SPF: pass (skip=loggedin (res=PASS)) x-ip-name=10.100.1.100; Original-Received: from [10.100.1.100] (unverified [10.100.1.100]) by pragma-net.nl (SurgeMail 6.1c) with ESMTP (TLS) id 2480-1713362 for multiple; Sat, 11 Aug 2012 12:02:31 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20120713 Thunderbird/14.0 In-Reply-To: <1344641215.32545.93.camel@kip-laptop> X-Authenticated-User: hagen@controller-9 X-Bayes-Prob: 0.0001 (Score 0, tokens from: @@RPTN) X-CanIt-Geo: ip=213.125.29.162; country=NL; region=03; city=Hattem; latitude=52.4724; longitude=6.0696; http://maps.google.com/maps?q=52.4724,6.0696&z=6 X-CanItPRO-Stream: uu:ntg-context@ntg.nl (inherits from uu:default, base:default) X-Canit-Stats-ID: 0VHJm2wJm - 5f781cae40b7 - 20120811 (trained as not-spam) X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . roaringpenguin . com) on 194.171.167.220 X-BeenThere: ntg-context@ntg.nl X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: mailing list for ConTeXt users List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Original-Sender: ntg-context-bounces@ntg.nl Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.comp.tex.context:77881 Archived-At: 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Hans Hagen | PRAGMA ADE Ridderstraat 27 | 8061 GH Hasselt | The Netherlands tel: 038 477 53 69 | voip: 087 875 68 74 | www.pragma-ade.com | www.pragma-pod.nl ----------------------------------------------------------------- ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________