Wolfgang Schuster wrote:
> 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
lm type 1 in pftex is less efficient than opentype in xetex/luatex
there may also be some different initial overhead per engine
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