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From: Pablo Rodriguez <oinos@gmx.es>
To: mailing list for ConTeXt users <ntg-context@ntg.nl>
Subject: Re: output file size with repeated image
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 2015 20:17:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <552D59AA.9090302@gmx.es> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <552D50B4.5010907@wxs.nl>

On 04/14/2015 07:39 PM, Hans Hagen wrote:
> On 4/14/2015 7:07 PM, Pablo Rodriguez wrote:
>> [...]
>> Although the image is the same (and it is only embedded once) file size
>> with repeated image is almost two and a half times that the version with
>> a single image.
>>
>> Is this right or am I missing something?
> 
> (1) each reference to an image takes some 40 bytes (uncompressed)
> (2) when you include the image n times you get 3 times as many pages 
> which means 400 more page descriptions etc, so you need to add 2 times 
> no image minus font overhead which is about what you see
> 
> context does some aggressive object sharing anyway so on the average the 
> pdf files produced are quite efficient

Many thanks for your explanation, Hans.

I totally missed the the triple pages with repeated images.


Pablo
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Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-04-14 17:07 Pablo Rodriguez
2015-04-14 17:39 ` Hans Hagen
2015-04-14 18:17   ` Pablo Rodriguez [this message]

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