Am 06.03.2010 14:54, schrieb Troy Henderson:
> I am writing because there appears to be a very large (i.e.,
> approximately a factor of 10) difference in filesizes of the same
> MetaPost graphic generated in the following 2 ways
> 
> (1) Including a common MetaPost source "common.mp" into a minimal MKIV
> document and compiling with `context surface.tex`
> (2) Including the same "common.mp" into a minimal MetaPost source file
> and compiling with `mpost surface.mp` followed by a `epstopdf
> surface.mps`.
> 
> In case (1), the resulting PDF is about 445kB whereas in case (2) the
> resulting PDF is about 45kB.  I've attached the "surface.tex",
> "surface.mp", and "common.mp" for those that wish to test this and
> help determine why ConTeXt's output is so much larger than
> MetaPost+epstopdf.
> 
mh, not here. the mkiv produced pdf (1) has exactly 60382 bytes.

MTXrun | current version: 2010.03.02 12:34
This is LuaTeX, Version beta-0.51.0-2010030215 (rev 3445)

Peter

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