Thanks Hans, I'll give this a try when I am in a daring mood and less busy.
Matthias On Jan 7, 2013, at 8:09 PM, Hans Hagen <pra...@wxs.nl> wrote: > On 1/8/2013 1:00 AM, Matthias Weber wrote: > >> So, this clearly is not a ConTeXt problem. But it causes me major >> headaches. In my workflow, I have dozens of images >> that I prepare with Adobe Illustrator and save as pdf files that are still >> editable with Illustrator, i.e. that include another copy of the >> file with layers etc. In other words, my pdf images are about 10 times as >> big as they need to be. I usually just reduce the file size with preview. >> As this seems to be erroneous now, I am wondering: > > it's even worse ... all kind of color and other data is present is such a > file .. the pstopdf.rb script (comes with mkii) gets rid of some of that > > normally at pragma we do such things either automatically (when graphics are > put in repositories) or with acrobat in batch mode (doable if you get the > graphics in advance) because doing such thing smanually for thousands of > images is no fun > > you can play with this: > > \startluacode > local gsp = os.type == "windows" and "gswin32c" or "gs" > local gsc = "%s -q -dEPSCrop -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dNOCACHE > -dBATCH -dProcessColorModel=/DeviceCMYK -sOutputFile=%s %s -c quit" > local pdp = "pdftops -eps %s %s" > > figures.converters.pdf = { > xxx = function(oldname,newname) > local tmpname = oldname .. ".ps" > local command = string.format(pdp,oldname,tmpname) > os.execute(command) > local command = string.format(gsc,gsp,newname,oldname) > os.execute(command) > end > } > > figures.registersuffix("xxx","pdf") > \stopluacode > > \starttext > > \externalfigure[cow.pdf][conversion=xxx] > > \stoptext > > pdftops comes with xpdf (also in minimals) > > if needed I can add a standard converter for it > > Hans > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ___________________________________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________________________ 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 ___________________________________________________________________________________