Hi Hans,
On Mac OS X 10.7.2, testing your file I get afile of 110 KB with mkii, and 72
KB with mkiv (from the minimals). You can find the outputs here:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4316076/test-png-mkii.pdf
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4316076/test-png-mkiv.pdf
All this with ConTeXt ver:
Sofar I received 2 reactions.
(1)
Can't reproduce here; I get a 70KB pdf with your file and image.
ConTeXt standalone, 32-bit Linux, mkiv, version 2011.10.01 10:48.
(2)
I've encountered the same problem. The PDF is 1.8MB big. Compressed with qpdf
(qpdf --stream-data=compress) its only 60KB!
On Thu 10 Nov 2011, Hans van der Meer wrote:
Something terrible must be done to png pictures, either in ConTeXt or in
luatex.
I have the following minimal sample code and picture. I include the png for
those who want to check.
% Test png addition.
\starttext
Place png figure.\par