On Sat, 3 May 2008 07:50:05 -0400 John Culleton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am writing an e-book where pdf file length is an issue. For the > minimal "Hello world" file I get the following lengths: > tex+dvips+ps2pdf 2820 > pdftex 5630 > texexec 22,173 > > The only thing I added to the last test was the \starttext and > \stoptext tags. The dvips etc. test defaulted to pdf 1.2, > the other two to pdf 1.4. I don't doubt that with more text the counts > would be more similar. Still the fourfold increase between the second > test and the third is a stunner. The e-book must be limited to 2 megs > per the publisher. You could use XeTeX or LuaTeX instead of pdfTeX. My example \starttext Hello World! \stoptext with the file size for each engine: pdfTeX: 21.355 XeTeX: 3.155 LuaTeX: 3.328 Wolfgang ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : [email protected] / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : https://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
